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AMENDMENTS  AND  NEW  SCHOOL  LAWS 


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THE  LEGISLATURE  OF  1917 


P.  GARY 
State  Superintendent 


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1917 


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SCHOOL  LAW  SUPPLEMENT 


GIVING  THE 


AMENDMENTS  AND  NEW  SCHOOL  LAWS 


AS  ENACTED  BY 


THE  LEGISLATURE  OF  1917 


C.  P    GARY 

State  Superintendent 


MADISON,  WISCONSIN 

DEMOCRAT  PRINTING  CoMPAitSr~ STATE  PRINTER 
1917 


OFFICE  OF 
STATE   SUPERINTENDENT   OF   SCHOOLS 

MADISON,  WISCONSIN. 

To  School  Officers: 

This  supplement  gives  the  educational  acts  passed  by  the 
legislature  of  1917.  In  cases  where  an  already  existing  statute 
has  been  amended,  comparison  with  the  original  may  be  made 
by  noting  the  statement  printed  at  the  conclusion  of  each  act 
and  consulting  the  section  amended,  as  found  in  the  school  law 
pamphlet  of  1915  sent  out  from  this  office,  or  the  volume  of 
Wisconsin  Statutes  for  the  same  year.  This  pamphlet  and  the 
School  Law  Pamphlet  for  1915  should  be  fastened  together  in 
some  way.  It  is  not  likely  that  a  new  and  complete  edition  of 
the  school  laws  in  pamphlet  form  will  be  issued  until  after  the 
legislative  session  of  1919.  By  that  time  a  new  and  complete 
edition  will  be  necessary. 

Some  of  the  more  important  statutes  have  been  repealed  and 
then  reenacted  and  so  arranged  that  the  sections  relating  to  the 
same  subject  are  brought  together  and  appear  under  one  chapter 
heading.  This  is  especially  true  of  the  laws  relating  to  trans- 
portation (see  Chapter  441),  creation  of  districts  (Chapter  497), 
and  free  high  schools  (Chapter  563).  Chapter  143  is  of  special 
interest  to  school  board  members,  particularly  the  clerk.  Chap- 
ters relating  to  appropriations  are  generally  omitted.  School 
officers  should  get  together  and  read  and  discuss  such  of  these 
new  laws  as  may  apply  to  the  schools  and  conditions  in  their 
particular  district  or  neighborhood.  Chapter  317  demands  im- 
mediate attention.  The  requirements  to  be  met  in  order  that 
your  school  may  be  successfully  placed  in  the  list  of  first-class 
rural  schools  can  be  found  in  this  pamphlet.  School  officers, 
parents,  and  teachers  should  keep  clearly  in  mind  the  fact  that 
this  department  is  organized  to  meet  the  call  of  the  public,  no 
matter  from  what  source  or  along  what  particular  educational 
lines  the  call  may  come.  We  are  here  to  help. 

Sincerely  yours, 

C.  P.  GARY, 
State  Superintendent. 

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Chapter  59.  Section  7.  The  board  of  directors  of  each  city  in 
which  this  act  shall  be  applicable  is  hereby  authorized  and  required 
to  establish  and  organize  so  many  public  schools,  in  addition  to 
those  already  established  in  such  city,  as  may  be  necessary  for  the 
accommodation  of  the  children  of  the  city  entitled  by  the  constitu- 
tion and  laws  of  the  state,  to  instruction  therein. 

The  said  board,  as  herein  provided,  shall  erect,  purchase,  hire  or 
lease  buildings,  improve  or  enlarge  the  same,  and  purchase  furni- 
ture and  lots  for  the  accommodation  of  such  public  schools  of  said 
city,  and  purchase,  install  and  maintain  heating  systems  in  said 
schools,  and  enter  into  contract  for  the  carrying  out  of  any  of  the 
purposes  authorized  in  this  act;  provided,  however,  that  when  the 
board  of  directors  shall  contemplate  the  doing  of  any  work  or  the 
purchasing  of  any  material,  the  estimated  cost  of  which  shall  exceed 
the  sum  of  five  hundred  dollars,  said  board  of  directors  shall  ad- 
vertise for  proposals  for  doing  the  same,  a  plan  or  profile  of  the 
work  to  be  done,  accompanied  with  specifications  for  doing  the 
same,  or  other  appropriate  sufficient  description  of  the  work  re- 
quired to  be  done,  and  all  the  kinds  or  quality  of  material  to  be 
furnished,  being  first  placed  on  file  in  the  office  of  said  board  for 
the  information  of  bidders  and  others.  Such  advertisement  shall 
be  published  at  least  six  days  in  the  official  papers  of  such  city  and 
shall  state  the  work  to  be  done  and  the  time  for  doing  the  same, 
which  shall  in  all  jcases  be  such  reasonable  time  as  may  be  neces- 
sary to  enable  the  contractor  with  proper  diligence  to  perform  and 
complete  such  work. 

All  proposals  shall  be  sealed,  and  directed  to  said  board  and  shall 
be  accompanied  with  a  bond  to  such  city  in  the  penal  sum  not  less 
than  thirty  per  cent,  of  the  amount  of  the  board's  estimate  of  the 
cost  of  such  work,  as  such  board  in  such  advertisement  may  direct, 
or  in  lieu  of  said  bond  shall  be  accompanied  by  a  certified  check  to 
such  city  in  the  amount  of  not  less  than  fifteen  per  cent,  of  the 
amount  of  the  board's  estimate  of  the  cost  of  such  work,  or  in  lieu 
of  said  bond  or  said  certified  check,  said  proposal  shall  be  accom- 
panied by  cash  in  the  amount  of  not  less  than  fifteen  per  cent.,  of 
the  amount  of  said  board's  estimate  of  the  cost  of  such  work,  and 
such  board  in  letting  any  such  contract  and  in  doing  such  work 
shall  proceed  in  manner  and  form  and  have  the  power  and  author- 
ity in  manner  and  form  as  is  vested  in  the  board  of  public  works, 


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or  other  public  officer  or  officers,  of  any  such  city  for  the  doing  of 
any  public  work  and  the  entering  into  contracts  therefor.  Such 
board  shall  also  have  authority  to  reserve  the  right  to  reject  any 
and  all  bids  submitted.  Such  contracts  shall  run  in  the  name  of 
the  said  city,  and  shall  be  executed  and  signed  by  the  president  and 
secretary  of  the  board  of  school  directors,  countersigned  by  the 
comptroller  of  said  city,  and  shall  be  approved  by  the  city  attorney 
of  the  said  city,  as  to  form  and  execution.  The  selection  of  sites 
for  school  buildings  and  adoption  of  plans  for  the  erection  of  school 
buildings,  shall  be  determined  by  a  committee  consisting  of  the  pres- 
ident of  the  board  of  school  directors,  the  chairman  of  the  commit- 
tee on  buildings  of  said  board  of  school  directors  and  the  superin- 
tendent of  schools  who  shall  be  known  as  the  statutory  committee 
on  school  sites  and  plans.  Their  decision  shall  be  subject  to  the 
approval  of  the  said  board  of  school  directors.  The  schoolhouses 
now  erected  and  the  lots  on  which  they  are  situated  and  the  lots 
now  or  hereafter  purchased  for  school  purposes  and  the  school- 
houses  thereon  erected  shall  be  the  property  of  the  city;  no  lot  shall 
be  purchased  or  leased,  nor  shall  any  schoolhouse  be  erected  with- 
out resolution  duly  passed  by  the  board  of  school  directors.  Deeds 
of  conveyance  and  leases  shall  be  made  to  the  city. 

The  said  board  shall  also  have  the  power  to  establish  and  define 
from  time  to  time  the  boundaries  of  all  common  and  high  school 
districts  in  such  manner  as  they  may  deem  best  calculated  to  pro- 
mote the  interests  of  the  schools. 

The  board  shall  also  have  the  power,  subject  to  the  powers  and 
regulations  of  the  city  service  commission,  to  employ  all  janitors 
necessary  in  the  schoolhouses  of  their  city  and  to  fix  their  compen- 
sation, but  the  principal  of  each  school  shall  be  custodian  of  all 
buildings  and  rooms  occupied  by  the  school  over  which  he  presides 
and  shall  have  the  general  supervision  over  the  same,  and  shall  di- 
rect the  janitor  thereof  in  relation  to  the  keeping  and  care  of  such 
buildings  and  rooms. 

^Chapter  71.  Section  496h — 1.  1.  The  school  board  of  any 
school  district  maintaining  a  first  class  state  graded  school  as  de- 
fined in  section  496d,  which  in  addition  to  the  regular  course  of 
study  provided  for  state  graded  schools,  offers  a  course  of  instruc- 
tion in  the  ninth  or  tenth,  or  in  the  ninth  and  tenth  grades  which 
has  been  adopted  by  the  board  and  approved  by  the  state  superin- 
tendent, shall  admit  nonresident  pupils  to  the  privileges  of  the  ninth 
or  tenth  or  the  ninth  and  tenth  grades  in  such  first-class  state 
graded  school  whenever  the  teaching  and  seating  facilities  will  war- 
rant, provided  that  the  parents  or  guardians  of  such  pupils  live  in 
a  school  district  not  maintaining  a  public  high  school  or  a  state 
graded  school  of  the  first  class  offering  instruction  in  the  ninth  or 
tenth  or  the  ninth  and  tenth  grades,  and  provided  such  pupils  have 
completed  the  course  of  study  offered  in  the  home  district,  which 


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must  have  been  at  least  equivalent  to  the  course  of  study  provided 
for  the  common  schools  of  Wisconsin,  and  who  hold  a  certificate  or 
diploma  to  that  effect  signed  by  the  county  superintendent  of 
schools  of  the  county  in  which  the  parents  or  guardians  reside.  In 
such  cases  the  school  board  of  such  school  district  shall  be  entitled 
and  is  hereby  authorized  and  directed  to  collect  from  the  town  or 
village  in  which  the  parents  or  guardians  of  such  pupils  reside  a 
sum  not  to  exceed  one  dollar  per  week  as  tuition  for  the  number 
of  weeks  that  each  such  pupil  was  enrolled  in  the  said  first-class 
state  graded  school  for  the  purpose  of  taking  the  ninth  or  tenth  or 
the  ninth  and  tenth  grade  work  as  offered  in  such  schools. 

2.  A  statement  of  the  amount  of  tuition  due  such  first-class  state 
graded  school  district  shall  be  rendered  to  the  towns  and  villages 
in  which  the  parents  or  guardians  of  such  pupils  reside,  and  the 
amount  shall  be  levied,  collected,  and  paid  in  the  same  manner  as 
tuition  is  now  collected  and  paid  free  high  school  districts  for  the 
attendance  of  nonresident  pupils,  as   provided  in  sections   49 6 j   to 
49 60  of  the  statutes.     Twenty  days  of  actual  attendance,  including 
legal  holidays,  shall  constitute  a  school  month. 

3.  No    school    district    maintaining    a    first-class    graded    school 
offering  a  course  of  instruction  in  the  ninth  or  tenth  or  the  ninth 
and  tenth  grades,  shall  be  privileged  to  collect  pay  for  tuition  as 
provided  in  this  section  unless  the  course  of  study  shall  have  been 
approved  by  the  state  superintendent,  and  unless  the  work  done  in 
the  ninth  or  the  tenth  or  the  ninth  and  tenth   grades   shall  have 
been  efficient  and  approved  by  the  inspector  of  state  graded  schools 
for  the  year  in  which  the  tuition  for  nonresident  pupils  is  demanded. 
And  provided  further  that  the  teaching  force  in  the  school  shall  have 
been  adequate  for  giving  instruction  in  the  first  eight  grades  and  in 
the  ninth  or  tenth  or  in  the  ninth  and  tenth  grades,  and  that  the 
work  done  in  the  first  eight  grades  shall  have  been  efficient  and  up 
to  the  standard  required  for  state  graded  schools  as  set  by  the  state 
superintendent. 

The  following  points  in  the  above  measure  are  worthy  of  special 
attention  on  the  part  of  a  school  board  of  a  district  which  maintains 
a  state  graded  school  of  the  first  class. 

(a)  Tuition  not  to  exceed  $1.00  per  month  may  be  collected  on 
account  of  attendance  of  pupils  taking  9th  and  10th  grade  work  or 
work  in  either  of  these  grades. 

(b)  No  tuition  can  be  collected  for  nonresidents  taking  llth  year 
work. 

(c)  If  llth  or  12th  grade  work  is  desirable,  a  free  high  school 
should  be  organized. 

(d)  Only  nonresidents  who  have  completed  the  course  of  study  in 
the  home  district  are  privileged  to  have  tuition  made  a  charge  upon 
the  outside  territory. 

(e)  The  statement  referred  to  in  paragraph  2  should  be  made  out 
in  detail  and  sent  to  the  proper  authorities  on  or  before  the  first 
day  of  July.     There  is  no  reason  why  this  statement  should  not  be 
made    immediately   after    the    close    of   the    school.      The    principal 
should  assist  in  making  out  the  bills.     It  should  be  directed  to  the 
town  clerk.     He  is  to  place  the  am,ount  due  in  the  tax  roll.     The 


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statute  commands  this  and  other  town  authorities  are  not  called 
upon  to  take  any  action.  Twenty  days'  attendance  (not  enrollment) 
is  to  constitute  a  school  month. 

(f)  The  course  of  study  for  9th  and  10th  grade  as  carried  out  in 
the  school  must  have  the  approval  of  the  inspector  of  state  graded 
schools,  and  the  teaching  force  must  he  sufficient  and  efficient.  This 
demands  much  care  on  the  part  of  the  board  in  selecting  teachers, 
and  the  exercise  of  judgment  rather  than  personal  interest  or  finan- 
cial profit  on  the  part  of  teachers.  Trouble  begins  for  all  concerned 
when  the  teacher  fails. 

Chapter  97.  Section  1408a — 1.  All  teachers  shall  immediately 
send  home  any  pupil  who  is  habitually  unclean  and  emits  offensive 
bodily -odors,  or  who  is  infested  with  lice  or  other  vermin  and  shall 
immediately  notify,  in  writing,  the  clerk  of  the  school  board  or  the 
superintendent  of  schools  and  the  parents  or  guardian  of  such 
pupil,  of  such  condition. 

Chapter  98.  Section  573aa.  4.  The  state  board  of  control  is 
authorized  and  directed,  whenever  suitable  and  reasonable  arrange- 
ments can  be  made,  to  transfer  any  child  designated  in  subsection  1 
of  this  section,  or  to  cause  any  such  child  to  be  committed,  to  some 
other  appropriate  hospital  in  this  state  wherein  such  treatment, 
surgical  assistance  and  care  may  be  given. 

Section  573aa.  -1.  In  addition  to  the  classes  of  children  now  re- 
ceived at  the  state  public  school  for  neglected  or  dependent  children 
at  Sparta,  pursuant  to  existing  laws,  there  shall  also  be  received 
as  pupils  in  the  said  school,  any  children  under  fourteen  years  of 
age,  residents  of  this  state,  who  are  crippled  or  deformed  in  body 
or  otherwise  physically  defective,  or  who  are  suffering  from  disease 
through  which  they  are  likely  to  become  crippled  or  deformed  or 
otherwise  physically  defective,  provided,  their  bodily  ailments  or 
diseases  are  curable  by  surgical  operation  or  hospital  treatment  at 
the  school  with  facilities,  appliances,  material,  equipment  and  pro- 
fessional skill  and  assistants  provided  therefor,  subject  only  to  the 
limitations  contained  in  the  next  section. 

Chapter  102.  Section  447h.  1.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  each 
teacher  in  the  public  schools  of  the  State  of  Wisconsin  to  devote 
not  less  than  thirty  minutes  in  each  month  during  which  the  school 
is  in  session  to  instructing  the  pupils  thereof  in  the  habits,  useful- 
ness, and  importance  of  dumb  animals  and  birds,  and  in  the  best 
methods  of  protecting,  preserving,  and  caring  for  all  animal  and 
bird  life. 

2.  School  boards  and  boards  of  education  having  control  of  the 
public  schools  shall  take  such  steps  as  may  be  necessary  to  have  the 
teachers  in  the  schools  under  their  jurisdiction  carry  out  the  pro- 
visions of  this  section  and  shall  cause  suitable  material  on  this  sub- 
ject to  be  included  in  the  course  of  study  prepared  for  the  guidance 
of  teachers. 

The  above  statute  affords  the  teacher  a  good  opportunity  to  give 
valuable  instruction  bearing  upon  the  value  of  certain  birds,  animals 


SCHOOL  LAWS  OP  WISCONSIN,    1917  9 

and  insects  with  reference  to  agriculture  and  horticulture  and  at 
the  same  time  calls  attention  to  the  enormous  destruction  of  grains 
and  fruits  and  vegetables  and  other  property,  caused  hy  other  ani- 
mals and  insects  such  as  rats,  moths,  certain  butterflies,  etc. 

Chapter  111.  Section  475.  For  the  purpose  of  aiding  in  the  pur- 
chasing of  a  site  or  the  erection  or  purchasing  of  a  schoolhouse  or 
to  equip  a  school  building  with  a  heating,  lighting  and  ventilating 
plant  or  one  or  more  such  plants  or  to  improve  or  equip  such  build- 
ing in  any  other  way,  any  school  district,  whether  organized  under 
general  law,  special  law,  or  charter,  may,  by  vote  of  the  electors  at 
any  annual  or  special  meeting,  called  for  that  purpose  authorize  the 
district  board,  school  board  or  board  of  education  to  borrow  money, 
to  an  amount  which  shall  not  in  any  way  exceed  the  limitations  now 
provided  by  general  law.  The  resolution  to  be  voted  upon  shall  be 
in  writing,  specifying  the  amount  to  be  borrowed,  the  purposes  for 
which  to  be  borrowed,  the  rate  of  interest,  and  the  time  and  man- 
ner of  payment,  which  shall  be  in  annual  instalments,  or  otherwise, 
the  last  of  which  shall  be  payable  in  not  exceeding  fifteen  years 
from  the  first  day  of  February  next  ensuing.  Such  resolution  shall 
be  read  to  the  meeting  and  the  vote  taken  thereon  by  ballots.  The 
ballots  shall  be  written  or  printed,  those  in  favor  of  the  loan:  "For 
the  loan",  those  opposed:  "Against  the  loan".  The  resolution  and 
vote  shall  be  recorded,  and  if  adopted  by  a  majority,  the  district 
board,  school  board  or  board  of  education  shall  be  thereupon  au- 
thorized to  borrow  such  sum  of  any  person  on  such  terms,  and  exe- 
cute and  deliver  to  the  lender  such  obligation  therefor  and  such  se- 
curity for  payment,  including  a  mortgage  or  pledge  of  any  real  or 
personal  property  of  the  district,  subject  to  the  direction  contained 
in  the  resolution  voted,  as  may  be  agreed  upon,  not  prohibited  by 
law,  and  shall  also  levy  a  tax  to  be  annually  collected  thereafter, 
sufficient  to  pay  the  interest  annually  on  such  loan  and  the  annual 
instalments  of  the  principal,  provided  to  be  paid  in  each  year. 

Any  bonds  issued  by  any  such  school  district,  to  secure  any  loan 
which  bonds  shall  have  been  issued  in  conformity  to  law,  including 
the  provisions  of  this  section,  as  amended  are  hereby  declared  to 
be  and  are  valid  claims  and  liens  against  the  school  district  so  issu- 
ing the  same. 

This  chapter  empowers  the  electors  of  a  school  district  to  author- 
ize the  board  to  borrow  money  for  the  purposes  named  herein  from 
some  bank,  firm  or  individual,  but  not  from  the  trust  funds.  The 
statute  relating  to  the  borrowing  of  money  from  the  trust  funds 
will  oe  found  in  another  place.  It  must  be  remembered  by  the 
electors  and  school  officers  that  the  statute  must  be  strictly  complied 
with  and  that  even  though  it  may  sometimes  appear  that  there 
is  an  unnecessary  amount  of  red  tape  in  posting  and  serving  notices, 
presenting  the  resolutions,  etc.,  etc.,  there  is  no  other  method  by 
which  the  desired  results  can  be  lawfully  brought  about. 

Chapter  118.  Section  4575.  Any  owner  or  keeper  of  any  billiard 
table,  pool  table,  pigeonhole  table  or  bowling  alley  kept  for  gain, 


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or  any  agent  or  servant  of  such  owner  or  keeper  in  charge  thereof 
who  shall  allow  or  in  any  manner  permit  any  person  under  the  age 
of  eighteen  years  except  with  the  written  consent  of  the  parent  or 
guardian  to  play  any  game  thereon,  shall  be  punished  by  imprison- 
ment in  the  county  jail  not  more  than  ten  days  or  by  fine  not  ex- 
ceeding twenty-five  dollars. 

While  the  above  chapter  is  not  a  school  statute  it  nevertheless  re- 
lates to  matters  of  importance  to  parents,  guardians  and  others. 

Chapter  135.  Section  425.  1.  The  annual  district  meeting  in 
all  school  districts  shall  be  held  on  the  first  Monday  of  July,  unless 
that  be  a  legal  holiday,  in  which  case  it  shall  be  held  on  the  next 
day,  at  eight  o'clock  in  the  afternoon,  unless  contrary  to  some 
special  provision  in  a  district  organized  under  a  special  act,  but  a 
different  hour  may  be  fixed  by  the  annual  district  meeting  for  the 
next  succeeding  annual  district  meeting. 

2.  Any  special  district  meeting  shall  be  held  on  the  day  and 
hour  fixed  therefor  in  the  notice.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  dis- 
trict board  to  meet  on  the  Saturday  immediately  preceding  the  an- 
nual meeting  to  carefully  examine  the  accounts  of  the  treasurer  and 
make  a  full  and  itemized  report  of  all  receipts  and  expenditures 
since  the  last  annual  meeting  and  of  the  amount  in  the  hands  of 
the  district  treasurer;  the  amount  of  the  deficit  or  bills  payable,  if 
any,  for  which  the  district  is  liable;  of  the  amount  necessary  to  be 
raised  by  tax  upon  the  district  for  the  support  of  the  school  for  the 
ensuing  year,  and  of  the  amount  required  to  pay  the  interest  or 
principal  of  any  debt  (indebtedness  to  the  state  trust  funds  ex- 
cepted)  due  or  to  become  due  during  the  year.  This  report  shall 
be  presented  at  the  annual  meeting  in  writing  and  shall  be  read  to 
the  electors  by  the  chairman  of  the  meeting.  The  district  clerk 
shall  copy  said  report  with  the  action  taken  thereon,  and  all  other 
business  proceedings  of  the  meeting  in  full,  in  the  district  record 
book. 

This  chapter  provides  that  the  annual  meeting  shall  be  held  at 
8  o'clock  in  the  afternoon  but  provides  that  a  special  district  meet- 
ing may  be  called  at  the  hour  fixed  in  the  notice.  Another  statute 
provides  that  no  more  than  two  special  meetings  may  be  called  dur- 
ing the  same  year  to  consider  the  same  subject. 

Chapter  143.  Section  430.  (18)  At  the  annual  meeting  only, 
to  vote  a  tax  to  compensate  the  treasurer  and  director,  which  in 
districts  supporting  graded  or  high  schools  shall  be  such  sums  as 
may  be  voted,  and  in  other  districts  maintaining  only  one  school  not 
more  than  ten  nor  less  than  five  dollars  to  each  of  the  above 
officers,  and  in  districts  maintaining  more  than  one  .school  in  sep- 
arate buildings  five  dollars  for  each  separate  additional  school  main- 
tained in  a  separate  building,  provided  the  buildings  are  at  least  a 
mile  and  a  half  apart,  the  distance  to  be  measured  by  the  nearest 
traveled  highway. 


SCHOOL  LAWS  OP  WISCONSIN,   1917  H 

Section  462.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  district  clerk,  between 
the  tenth  and  twenty-fifth  days  of  July  in  each  year,  to  make  and 
transmit  to  the  county  or  city  superintendent,  a  written  report  bear- 
ing date  as  of  the  thirtieth  day  of  June,  of  such  year,  signed  by  him 
and  verified  by  his  affidavit,  showing: 

First.  The  number,  names  and  ages  of  children,  male  and  fe- 
male designated  separately,  over  the  age  of  four  and  under  the  age 
of  twenty  years  residing  in  the  district,  and  the  names  of  their  par- 
ents, guardians  or  other  persons  with  whom  such  children  resided, 
respectively,  on  the  last  day  of  June  preceding.  But  no  such  chil- 
dren residing  in,  held  or  cared  for  at  any  charitable  or  penal  in- 
stitution of  this  state  shall  be  included  in  such  enumeration  or  re- 
port; and  whenever  the  state  superintendent  shall  receive  informa- 
tion that  any  such  children  have  been  enumerated  in  the  school 
census  of  any  school  district  included  in  the  reports  made  to  him, 
on  the  basis  of  which  apportionment  of  money  from  the  school  fund 
income  is  made,  he  may  require  from  the  district  clerk  or  the  sec- 
retary of  the  board  of  education  of  said  district  a  verified  statement 
of  the  whole  number  of  children  of  school  age  residing  in  the  dis- 
trict not  excluded  by  the  provisions  of  this  section,  in  such  form 
and  manner  as  the  said  superintendent  may  prescribe.  Unless  the 
certificate  herein  provided  for  shall  be  made  no  money  shall  be  ap- 
portioned for  the  benefit  of  said  school  district. 

Second.  The  whole  number  of  children,  males  and  females  desig- 
nated separately,  between  the  ages  of  four  and  twenty  years  taught 
in  the  district  school  during  the  year  for  which  such  report  is  made 
by  teachers  duly  qualified. 

Third.  The  number  attending  school  during  the  year  under  the 
age  of  four  and  the  number  over  the  age  of  twenty  years. 

Fourth.  The  whole  time,  in  days,  any  common  school  has  been 
taught  in  the  district,  including  holidays,  and  the  whole  number  of 
days  such  school  has  been  taught  by  teachers  qualified  according  to 
law,  including  holidays,  and  the  days  the  teachers  may  have  at- 
tended an  institute  during  the  year  while  the  school  was  in  session 
for  which  no  deduction  in  wages  was  made  by  the  district  board. 

Fifth.  The  names  of  all  teachers  employed  during  the  year,  the 
number  of  days  taught  by  each,  including  holidays,  and  the  monthly 
wages  paid  to  each,  and  the  time  allowed  any  teacher  for  attendance 
on  any  institute  for  which  no  wages  were  deducted. 

Sixth.  The  amount  of  money  received  from  the  town  treasurer 
during  the  year,  designating  separately  the  amount  received  from 
apportionment  of  the  school  fund  income,  the  amount  received  from 
tax  levied  by  county  board  of  supervisors,  the  amount  received  from 
tax  voted  by  the  district,  and  the  amount  received  from  all  other 
sources  during  the  year,  and  the  manner  in  which  the  same  has 
been  expended,  showing  separately  the  expenditure  of  school  money 
received  from  the  state. 

Seventh.  Such  other  facts  and  statistics  in  relation  to  the 
schools,  public  or  private,  in  such  district  as  the  state  superintend- 


12  SCHOOL,  LAWS  OP  WISCONSIN,   1917 

ent  may  from  time  to  time  require.  The  clerk  of  each  joint  district 
shall  report  to  the  county  or  city  superintendent,  as  the  case  may 
be,  the  number  of  children  residing  in  each  part  of  the  several 
towns,  villages,  or  cities  embraced  in  such  joint  districts.  He  shall 
also  report  the  amount  of  the  indebtedness  of  the  district.  Upon 
filing  with  the  county  superintendent  within  the  time  set  by  law,  a 
complete  and  satisfactory  annual  report  setting  forth  all  the  facts 
required  by  law  to  be  reported  to  the  county  or  city  superintendent, 
and  such  other  information  as  may  be  called  for  by  either  the 
county  or  city  superintendent,  the  school  district  clerk  in  a  school 
district  maintaining  one  or  more  schools  in  one  or  more  separate 
school  buildings  and  not  containing  an  incorporated  village  or  city, 
and  having  a  school  census  of  one  hundred  persons  or  less  shall  be 
paid  from  any  moneys  in  the  general  fund  of  the  school  district 
treasury  of  which  he  is  the  clerk,  the  sum  of  ten  dollars  for  each 
one-room  school  maintained  by  the  district;  provided,  that  ,such 
schools  are  more  than  a  mile  and  a  half  apart,  the  distance  to  be 
measured  by  the  nearest  traveled  highway.  In  a  school  district 
maintaining  one  or  more  separate  schools  in  separate  buildings  and 
not  containing  an  incorporated  village  or  city  and  having  a  school 
census  of  more  than  one  hundred  persons  and  not  more  than  two 
hundred  persons,  twenty  dollars  for  the  first  school  and  an  additional 
ten  dollars  for  each  separate  school  maintained  in  a  separate  build- 
ing by  the  district,  provided,  that  such  schools  are  more  than  a  mile 
and  a  half  apart,  the  distance  to  be  measured  by  the  nearest  trav- 
eled highway.  In  a  school  district  maintaining  one  or  more  separ- 
ate schools  in  separate  buildings  and  not  containing  an  incorporated 
village  or  city  and  having  a  school  census  of  more  than  two  hun- 
dred persons  and  not  more  than  three  hundred  persons,  thirty  dol- 
lars for  the  first  school  and  an  additional  ten  dollars  for  each  separ- 
ate school  maintained  in  a  separate  building  by  the  district;  pro- 
vided, that  such  schools  are  more  than  a  mile  and  a  half  apart,  the 
distance  to  be  measured  by  the  nearest  traveled  highway;  and  in 
school  districts  having  a  school  census  of  more  than  three  hundred 
persons  of  school  age,  or  containing  an  incorporated  village  or  city, 
or  maintaining  a  high  school  or  graded  school,  or  in  districts  main- 
taining town  or  union  high  schools,  such  sum  as  the  body  electing 
the  school  board  of  such  school  district  may  direct;  provided,  such 
school  clerk  shall  file  with  the  district  treasurer  a  certificate  signed 
by  the  county  or  city  superintendent  of  schools  setting  forth  that 
the  school'  census  for  the  year  was  properly  taken,  and  that  all  re- 
ports required  by  law  to  be  made  by  school  district  clerks  have  been 
filed  on  and  within  the  time  specified  by  law  and  approved. 

This  chapter  is  of  particular  interest  to  school  district  clerks  and 
secretaries  of  boards  of  education.  It  should  be  carefully  studied  by 
such  officers  before  any  move  is  made  in  the  matter  of  taking  the 
school  census  and  making  the  annual  report.  The  blanks  sent  out  by 
the  state  superintendent  each  year  contain  definite  instructions, 
which  if  studied,  may  be  readily  followed  and  will  save  much  delay 
and  annoyance. 


SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  WISCONSIN,   1917  13 

Chapter  154.  Section  925 — 133.  (9)  Such  other  purposes  as 
are  authorized  by  these  statutes.  No  such  bonds  shall  be  issued 
unless  authorized  by  an  ordinance  adopted  by  a  vote  in  favor  of  the 
same  of  at  least  three  fourths  of  all  the  members  of  the  common 
council  elect,  said  vote  to  be  at  a  regular  meeting,  not  less  than  one 
week  after  the  proposed  ordinance  shall  have  been  published  in  the 
official  paper  of  the  city.  In  case  of  bonds  issued  for  street  im- 
provements, school  purposes,  waterworks,  lighting  works  for  streets 
and  public  buildings,  hospitals,  dredging,  docking,  river  and  other 
harbor  improvements,  sewerage,  parks  and  public  grounds,  a  vote 
of  the  people  of  the  city  shall  not  be  required  unless  within  thirty 
days  after  the  passage  by  the  common  council  of  the  city  of  the  or- 
dinance authorizing  the  issuing  of  the  bonds  for  such  purposes 
there  shall  be"  filed  in  the  office  of  the  city  clerk  a  petition  in  writ- 
ing, signed  by  not  less  than  ten  per  cent  in  number  of  the  voters 
who  voted  in  said  city  at  the  last  general  election,  asking  for  sub- 
mission of  the  question  of  issuing  such  bonds  to  a  vote  of  the  peo- 
ple, in  which  case  such  question  shall  be  submitted  as  provided  in 
section  943;  provided  that  no  election  or  vote  by  the  people  thereon 
shall  have  any  validity,  or  any  effect  whatever  on  the  action  of  the 
common  council  of  any  city  when  the  purpose  of  such  bonds  is  to 
repair,  improve,  make  additions  to,  or  replace  with  new  buildings 
any  school  building  or  buildings  which  have  been  legally  condemned 
or  declared  to  be  unfit  for  school  purposes  for  any  reason  whatever 
by  the  proper  authorities,  pursuant  to  the  provisions  of  section  517 
of  the  statutes,  and  this  provision  shall  apply  to  any  such  election 
where  such  order  or  decree  made  under  and  pursuant  to  said  section 
517  is  made  and  filed  at  any  date  prior  to  the  date  of  any  proposed 
election  on  such  bond  issue;  provided,  that  no  such  bonds  shall  be 
issued  so  that  the  amount  thereof,  together  with  all  other  indebted- 
ness of  the  city,  shall  exceed  five  per  cent  of  the  assessed  valuation 
of  the  property  therein  at  the  last  assessment  for  the  state  and 
county  taxes  previous  to  the  incurring  of  such  indebtedness;  that 
that  all  such  bonds  issued  shall  be  payable  at  the  option  of  the  city 
in  annual  installments,  the  last  installment  being  payable  not  more 
than  twenty  years  after  their  date,  and  shall  bear  interest  not  ex- 
ceeding six  per  cent  per  annum,  payable  semi-annually,  and  that 
the  council  shall  have  provided  for  the  collection  of  a  direct  annual 
tax  sufficient  to  pay  the  interest  thereon  as  it  falls  due  and  to  pay 
and  discharge  the  principal  thereof  within  twenty  years  from  the 
date  of  the  issue  of  such  bonds.  The  council  may  also  issue  nego- 
tiable bonds  constituting  a  general  city  liability  for  the  refunding 
of  other  bonds  or  for  the  funding  of  general  city  indebtedness  or 
liability  in  the  following  cases: 

Chapter  157.  Section  4 3 Of.  1.  Whenever  any  school  district 
having  a  schoolhouse  of  one  room  only  shall  enroll  and  have  in 
attendance  therein  for  a  period  of  more  than  twenty  days  during  any 
one  school  term  sixty  or  more  pupils,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the 


14  SCHOOL  LAWS  OP  WISCONSIN,   191? 

electors  of  said  district  at  the  next  annual  meeting  to  authorize  the 
district  board  to  make  provision  for  an  additional  room  and  an 
additional  teacher  for  the  accommodation  and  instruction  of  said 
children. 

2.  Failure  to  comply  with  this  section  shall  cause  the  district  to 
forfeit  the  right  to  share  in  the  apportionment  in  that  part  of  the 
public  money  which  said  district  would  otherwise  receive  from  the 
seven-tenths  mill  tax  as  provided  by  law. 

If  a  school  district  shows  an  average  daily  attendance  of  any- 
thing like  60  pupils  in  a  one-room  school  during  the  year,  the 
electors  should  by  all  means  seriously  consider  the  question  of  or- 
ganizing a  state  graded  school.  The  advantages  offered  by  a  state 
graded  school  both  educationally  and  financially  should  be  seriously 
considered  by  the  electors  in  districts  having  a  large  school  popula- 
tion, but  maintaining  a  one-room  school  only. 

Chapter  165.  Section  432.  The  director,  treasurer  and  clerk 
shall  constitute  the  district  board.  In  all  joint  school  districts  con- 
taining a  city  of  the  fourth  class,  or  an  incorporated  village,  said 
district  board  shall  meet  on  the  day  following  each  annual  district 
meeting  at  the  hour  of  eight  o'clock  in  the  afternoon  of  that  day, 
at  the  place  where  the  preceding  annual  meeting  was  held,  and  by 
resolution  fix  the  time  and  place  for  holding  stated  and  regular 
meetings  of  the  board  during  the  ensuing  year.  A  majority  of  the 
members  shall  constitute  a  quorum  for  the  transaction  of  business 
and  all  business  transacted  pertaining  to  the  district  at  any  such 
regular  meeting  shall  be  lawful,  but  special  meetings  of  the  board 
may  be  called  by  any  two  members  thereof  by  serving  on  the  other 
member  a  written  notice  of  the  time  and  place  of  such  meeting  at 
least  twenty-four  hours  before  such  meeting  is  to  take  place.  No 
act  authorized  to  be  done  by  the  board  shall  be  valid  unless  voted 
at  its  meeting  and  no  formal  notice  of  a  special  meeting  shall  be  re- 
quired where  all  members  are  present  and  consent  to  consider  mat- 
ters relating  to  the  district.  In  all  other  districts,  except  where 
otherwise  provided  by  law,  all  meetings  of  the  board  shall  be  called 
in  the  manner  herein  provided  for  calling  special  meetings. 

This  requires  regular  meetings  of  the  members  of  the  school  board 
in  all  villages,  and  in  all  cities  of  the  fourth  class,  (10,000  popula- 
tion or  less)  where  the  village  or  city  is  a  part  of  a  joint  school 
dirtrict  and  the  provisions  apply  to  all  villages  and  about  two-thirds 
of  the  cities  in  the  state. 

Chapter  172.  Section  925 — 113a.  4.  In  all  cases  where  a  vote 
under  this  section  of  the  statutes  has  been  had  during  the  year 
1917,  which  vote  has  resulted  in  favor  of  the  change  to  the  ordin- 
ary district  system  of  school  government,  the  resolution  filed  with 
the  city  clerk,  on  which  any  such  election  was  held  shall  be  sufficient 
if  it  was  signed  by  thirty  per  cent  in  number  of  the  legal  voters  of 
such  city  school  district  voting  for  school  officers  at  the  last  previous 
school  election. 


SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  WISCONSIN,   1917  15 

5.  Where  a  vote  under  this  section  of  the  statutes  has  been  had 
during  the  year  1917,  resulting  in  favor  of  a  change  to  the  ordinary 
district  system  of  school  government,  the  first  meeting  of  said 
school  district  for  the  organization  of  said  district  under  the  ordin- 
ary system  of  school  government  shall  be  held  on  the  first  Monday 
of  July  of  said  year  and  notice  of  the  place  and  time  of  holding  said 
meeting  may  be  given  by  the  city  clerk  of  said  city  in  the  manner 
designated  by  section  426  of  the  statutes;  and  at  said  first  meeting 
the  district  shall  have  power  to  act  upon  any  and  all  of  the  matters 
specified  in  section  430  and  section  475  of  the  statutes,  whether  the 
notice  of  said  meeting  refers  to  said  matters  or  not. 

This  chapter  may  be  of  interest  to  electors  and  school  officers  in 
small  cities.  The  above  is  but  a  small  part  of  chapter  178.  Section 
4 3  la  of  the  statutes  should  be  studied  in  connection  with  this 
chapter,  inasmuch  as  the  method  of  holding  school  district  meetings 
provided  by  said  section  has  proved  highly  popular  wherever 
adopted. 

Chapter  178.  1801.  Custody,  preservation,  and  delivery  of  offi- 
cial property  and  records.  (1)  Each  and  every  officer  of  the  state, 
or  of  any  county,  town,  city,  village,  school  district,  or  other  munici- 
pality or  district,  is  the  legal  custodian  of  and  shall  safely  keep  and 
preserve  all  property  and  things  received  from  his  predecessor  or 
other  persons  and  required  by  law  to  be  filed,  deposited,  or  kept  in 
his  office,  or  which  are  in  the  lawful  possession  or  control  of  him- 
self or  his  deputies,  or  to  the  possession  or  control  of  which  he  or 
they  may  be  lawfully  entitled,  as  such  officers. 

(2)  Except  as  expressly  provided  otherwise,  any  person  may  with 
proper  care,  during  office  hours  and  subject  to  such  orders  or  regu- 
lations as  the  custodian  thereof  may  prescribe,  examine  or  copy  any 
of  the  property  or  things  mentioned  in  subsection  (1). 

(3)  Upon  the  expiration  of  his  term  of  office,  or  whenever  his 
office  becomes  vacant,  each  such  officer,   or  on  his  death  his  legal 
representative,   shall  on  demand  deliver  to  his  successor  all  such 
property  and  things  then  in  his  custody,  and  his  successor  shall  re- 
ceipt therefor  to  said  officer,  who  shall  file  said  receipt,  as  the  case 
may  be,  in  the  office  of  the  secretary  of  state,  county  clerk,  town 
clerk,   city   clerk,   village  clerk,   school   district   clerk,    or   clerk   or 
other  secretarial  officer  of  the  municipality  or  district,  respectively; 
but  if  a  vacancy  occurs  before  such  successor  is  qualified,  such  prop- 
erty and  things  shall  be  delivered  to  and  be  receipted  for  by  such 
secretary  or  clerk,  respectively,  on  behalf  of  the  successor  to  be  de- 
livered to  such  successor  upon  the  latter's  receipt. 

(4)  Any  person  who  violates  any  of  the  provisions  of  this  section 
shall,  in  addition  to  any  other  liability  or  penalty,  civil  or  criminal, 
forfeit  not  less  than  twenty-five  nor  more  than  two  thousand  dol- 
lars; such  forfeiture  to  be  enforced  by  a  civil  action  on  behalf  of, 
and  the  proceeds  to  be  paid  into  the  treasury  of  the  state,  munici- 
pality, or  district,  as  the  case  may  be. 


16  SCHOOL  LAWS  OP  WISCONSIN,   1917 

Section  3.  Sections  978  to  983,  inclusive,  of  the  statutes  are  con- 
solidated and  renumbered  to  be  section  18.02  and  revised  to  read: 

18.02  Proceedings  to  Compel  the  Delivery  of  Official  Property. 
(1)  If  any  public  officer  refuses  or  neglects  to  deliver  to  his  suc- 
cessor any  official  property  or  things  as  required  in  section  18.01, 
or  if  such  property  or  things  shall  come  to  the  hands  of  any  other 
person  who  refuses  or  neglects,  on  demand,  to  deliver  the  same  to 
the  successor  in  such  office,  such  successor  may  make  complaint 
thereof  to  any  judge  of  a  court  of  record  for  the  circuit  or  county 
where  the  person  so  refusing  or  neglecting  resides.  If  such  judge 
be  satisfied  by  the  oath  of  the  complainant  and  such  other  testi- 
mony as  may  be  offered  that  any  such  property  or  things  are  with- 
held he  shall  grant  an  order  directing  the  person  so  refusing  to 
show  cause  before  him,  within  some  short  and  reasonable  time,  why 
he  .should  not  be  compelled  to  deliver  the  same. 

(2)  At  the  time  appointed,  or  at  any  other  time  to  which  the 
matter  may  be  adjourned,  upon  due  proof  of  service  of  such  order, 
if  the  person  complained  against  makes  affidavit  before  such  judge 
that  he  has  delivered  to  such  successor  all  the  official  property  and 
things  in  his  custody  or  possession  pertaining  to  such  office,  within 
his  knowledge,  the  person  complained  against  shall  be  discharged 
and  all  further  proceedings  in  the  matter  before  such  judge  shall 
cease. 

(3)  If  the  person  complained  against  does  not  make  such  affidavit 
the  matter  shall  proceed  as  follows: 

(a)  The  judge  shall  inquire  further  into  the  matters  set  forth  in 
the  complaint,  and  if  it  appears  that  any  such  property  or  things 
are  withheld  by  the  person  complained  against  the  judge  shall  by 
warrant  commit  him  to  the  county  jail,  there  to  remain  until  the 
delivery  of  such  property  and  things  to  the  complainant  or  until  he 
be  otherwise  discharged  according  to  law. 

(b)  If  required  by  the  complainant  the  judge  shall  also  issue  his 
warrant,  directed  to  the  sheriff  or  any  constable  of  the  county,  com- 
manding him  in  the  daytime  to  search  such  places  as  shall  be  desig- 
nated in  such  warrant  for  such  official  property  and  things  as  were 
in  the  custody  of  the  officer  whose  term  of  office  expired  or  whose 
office  became  vacant,  or  of  which  he  was  the  legal  custodian,  and 
seize  and  bring  them  before  the  judge  issuing  such  warrant. 

(c)  When  any   such  property   or  things  are  brought  before   the 
judge  by  virtue  of  such  warrant,  he  shall  inquire  whether  the  same 
pertain  to  such  office,  and  if  it  thereupon  appears  that  they  pertain 
thereto  he  shall  order  their  delivery  to  the  complainant. 

This  chapter  is  a  revision  and  consolidation  of  several  statutes 
upon  the  same  subject  but  heretofore  found  in  connection  with 
sections  imposing  duties  on  different  officials. 

"Chapter  187.  Section  496h.  No  more  than  one  such  graded 
school  in  any  village,  shall  receive  state  aid  as  herein  provided,  nor 


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shall  any  graded  school  in  any  incorporated  city  participate  in  said 
state  aid. 

Officers  of  some  state  graded  school  districts  may  be  interested  in 
this  chapter. 

Chapter  189.  Section  516m.  Whenever  the  town  board  of  super- 
visors of  any  town  in  which  the  township  system  of  school  govern- 
ment has  been  abolished  shall  have  failed  to  perform  the  duties 
imposed  upon  them  by  section  516,  and  the  amount  of  certificates 
of  indebtedness  of  such  abolished  township  system  has  never  been 
apportioned  to  the  different  districts  comprising  the  territory  of 
such  abolished  township  system,  and  remains  unpaid,  and  the  terri- 
tory comprising  such  township  system  shall  have  been  divided  into 
more  than  one  town  or  other  municipality,  the  county  clerk  of  the 
county  in  which  such  territory  is  situated  on  presentation  to  and 
filing  with  him  of  any  unpaid  outstanding  certificates  of  indebted- 
ness of  such  abolished  system  of  township  school  government  shall 
apportion  the  amount  of  such  unpaid  certificates,  together  with  the 
accrued  interest  thereon  on  all  the  taxable  real  estate  of  the  terri- 
tory comprising  such  abolished  township  system  according  to  the 
assessed  valuation  thereof  for  the  year  in  which  such  township  sys- 
tem was  abolished,  and  levy  upon  each  town  or  municipality  com- 
prising such  territory  its  just  and  equal  share  thereof  and  include 
the  same  in  the  certificate  of  taxes  certified  to  the  clerk  of  such 
town  or  other  municipality  and  charged  to  such  town  or  municipal- 
ity. The  tax  so  levied  shall  be  collected  and  returned  to  the  county 
treasurer  the  same  as  county  taxes  are  collected  and  returned.  After 
such  tax  shall  have  been  so  levied,  collected  and  returned  to  the 
county,  the  county  clerk  shall  give  to  the  owner  of  any  such  certifi- 
cate or  certificates  of  indebtedness,  an  order  on  the  county  treas- 
urer for  the  amount  levied  for  such  certificate  or  certificates,  and 
the  treasurer  shall  pay  the  same  out  of  the  general  fund  of  said 
county. 

The  township  system  was  abolished  by  chapter  388  Laws  of  1911. 

Chapter  189  requires  that  indebtedness,  values  of  school  proper- 
ties, money  on  hand,  etc.,  at  the  time  any  town  was  divided  into  inde- 
pendent districts  be  apportioned.  This  statute  gives  an  opportunity 
at  this  time  to  adjust  claims  and  differences.  If  any  adjustments 
are  to  be  made  steps  to  do  so  must  be  taken  at  once  before  a  statute 
of  limitations  takes  effect. 

Chapter  224.  Section  553q — 2.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  such  agri- 
cultural representative  under  the  direction  and  supervision  of  the 
special  committee  on  agriculture:  - 

(a)  To  advise  and  consult  with  individuals  in  reference  to  farm- 
ing methods; 

(b)  To  aid  in  the  development  and  improvement  of  agriculture 
and  country  life   conditions; 

(c)  To  offer  courses  of  instruction  to  young  people  and  adults; 


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(d)  To  aid  in  the  formation  of  cooperative  enterprises; 

(e)  To  promote  better  business  methods  among  farmers; 

(f)  To  give  such   assistance   as  possible  in  the  development  of 
agricultural  teaching  in  the  schools  of  the  county; 

(g)  To  do  other  work  designed  to  promote  the  agricultural  or 
rural  development  of  the  county; 

(h)  To  keep  in  touch  with  all  agencies  in  the  state  and  elsewhere 
that  will  enable  him  to  utilize  the  most  improved  knowledge  in  the 
furtherance  of  his  work; 

(i)  To  make  an  annual  report  of  his  activities  to  the  county 
board. 

Section  553q — 3.  For  the  partial  maintenance  of  agricultural 
development  of  such  county  under  the  supervision  of  such  agricul- 
tural representative,  authority  is  hereby  given  the  county  board  to 
raise,  by  tax  levy  or  otherwise,  for  periods  of  not  less  than  two 
years  each,  such  moneys  as  may  be  deemed  sufficient  to  cover  the 
share  of  the  county  in  such  work.  In  no  case  shall  the  amount 
appropriated  by  the  county  for  this  work  be  less  than  one  thousand 
dollars  annually.  Such  moneys  shall  be  disbursed  by  the  county 
treasurer  only  upon  orders  of  the  county  clerk  which  shall  have 
been  approved  by  the  special  committee  on  agriculture. 

Section  553q — 5.  For  the  fiscal  year  beginning  July  1,  1917, 
this  work  shall  be  organized  in  not  to  exceed  twenty-five  counties 
of  the  state  and  for  the  fiscal  year  beginning  July  1,  1918  and  for 
each  year  thereafter  in  not  to  exceed  twenty-eight  counties  of  the 
state. 

(Section  20.40)  (4)  Annually,  on  July  first,  twenty  thousand 
five  hundred  dollars;  annually,  for  four  years  from  July  1,  1913, 
one  thousand  dollars;  annually,  for  five  years  from  July  1,  1913, 
two  thousand  dollars;  on  July  1,  1915,  eleven  thousand  dollars;  on 
July  1,  1916,  six  thousand  dollars,  on  July  1,  1917,  twenty-five 
thousand  dollars  and  annually,  beginning  July  1,  1918,  twenty- 
eight  thousand  dollars,  to  meet  the  appropriations  from  the  uni- 
versity fund  income  made  by  paragraphs  (c),  (d),  (e),  (h),  (i) 
and  (j)  of  subsection  (3)  of  section  20.41. 

(Section  20.41)  (3)  (e)  On  July  1,  1917,  twenty-five  thousand 
dollars,  and  annually,  beginning  July  1,  1918,  twenty-eight  thous- 
and dollars,  for  county  agricultural  development  as  provided  in 
sections  553q — 1  to  553p — 8,  inclusive. 

Section  2.  A  new  section  is  added  to  the  statutes  to  read:  Sec- 
tion 553q — 6m.  The  special  committee  on  agriculture  shall  con- 
sist of  the  chairman  of  the  county  board  of  supervisors,  the  county 
superintendent  or  superintendents  of  schools,  and  the  president  of 
the  training  school  board,  except  that  in  counties  having  no  train- 
ing school,  the  last  member  of  such  committee  shall  be  selected  by 
the  county  board  of  supervisors. 

Chapter  232.  Section  411 — 1.  The  county  board  of  any  county 
within  which  a  state  normal  school  is  not  located,  is  hereby  au- 


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thorized  to  appropriate  money  for  the  organization,  equipment,  and 
maintenance  of  a  county  training  school  for  teachers  of  common 
schools,  and  for  the  erection  of  suitable  school  buildings  therefor. 
Section  411 — la.  In  case  any  county  board  of  supervisors  votes 
to  appropriate  money  and  erect  a  suitable  school  building  for  the 
use  of  the  county  training  school  for  teachers,  special  state  aid, 
partially  to  defray  the  cost  of  erecting  such  school  building,  shall 
be  granted  to  counties  maintaining  county  training  schools,  as  fol- 
lows: 

(1)  All  plans  for  the  erection  of  such  school  buildings  shall  be 
submitted  to  the  state  superintendent  for  his  approval  before  the 
construction  of  the  building  shall  be  commenced,  and  no  state  aid 
shall  be  granted  unless  he  has  approved  the  plans  thus  submitted. 

(2)  Upon  the  completion  of  the  building,   the   county  board  of 
supervisors,  through  the  proper  officers,  shall  notify  the  state  super- 
intendent that  the  school  building  is  completed  and  shall  submit 
to  him  a  certified  statement  of  the  actual  cost  of  the  erection  of 
the  building. 

(3)  If  he  shall  be  satisfied  that  the   building  has  been  erected 
substantially  in  accordance  with  the  plans  submitted,  it  shall  be 
his  duty   to  certify   to   the  secretary   of  state  aid   in   favor  of   the 
county  erecting  the  building  in  an  amount  equal  to  one-fourth  the 
cost  of  the  erection  of  the  building,  provided  that  not  more  than 
three  thousand  dollars  shall  be  paid  as  such  aid  to  any  one  county, 
and  provided,  further,  that  he  shall  not  certify  aid  for  more  than 
two  counties  in  any  one  school  year. 

(4)  The  secretary  of  state,  on  receipt  of  such  certificate,  shall 
draw  his  warrant  on  the  state  treasurer,  in  favor  of  the  treasurer 
of  the  county,  which  shall  be  paid  by  the  state  treasurer. 

This  is  of  interest  to  county  boards  of  supervisors  inasmuch  as  it 
offers  a  sum  not  to  exceed  $3,000  to  be  paid  directly  from  the  treas- 
ury to  aid  in  the  erection  of  buildings  for  county  teachers'  training 
schools. 

^Chapter  234.  Section  776.  (1)  To  vote  to  raise  money  for  the 
repair  and  building  of  roads  or  bridges,  or  either;  for  the  support 
of  the  poor  and  defraying  all  other  charges  and  expenses  of  the 
town;  provided,  however,  that  the  total  taxes  levied  in  any  town 
for  any  one  year  for  all  town  purposes,  exclusive  of  school  taxes 
and  liabilities  heretofore  lawfully  incurred,  shall  not  exceed  in  the 
whole,  one  per  centum  of  the  total  assessed  valuation  of  such  town 
for  the  preceding  year,  as  equalized  by  the  town  board  of  equaliza- 
tion, unless  a  larger  sum  is  needed  for  the  building  or  repairing  of 
highways  or  bridges,  in  which  case  the  electors  may  vote  and  the 
proper  authorities  may  levy,  not  to  exceed  one-fourth  of  one  per 
centum  in  addition  to  the  aforesaid  one  per  centum;  provided, 
further,  that  not  exceeding  two  per  centum  additional  may  be  levied 
for  school  purposes  when  under  the  township  system  of  school  gov- 
ernment. Provided,  that  in  a  town  having  income  taxes  in  its 


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treasury  the  same  may  be  expended  for  town  anl  school  purposes, 
regardless  of  the  foregoing  limitation. 

The  township  system  of  school  government  was  abolished  by  the 
legislature  of  1911. 

Chapter  236.  Section  925 — 116m.  1.  The  board  of  school  di- 
rectors in  any  city  of  the  first  class  is  hereby  authorized  to  provide 
for  the  transportation  in  comfortable  and  convenient  vehicles  to 
and  from  their  homes  daily  on  school  days  to  such  schoolhouses  or 
rooms  as  are  or  may  be  set  apart  by  said  board  of  school  directors 
for  the  education  of  such  children,  of  crippled  children  and  chil- 
dren who  are  suffering  from  physical  or  mental  disabilities  who  are 
of  school  age  and  living  in  said  city  and  who  may  desire  to  attend 
school. 

2.  Said  board  of  school  directors  shall  have  power  to  provide 
lunches,  under  such  terms  and  conditions  as  said  board  shall  de- 
termine, for  .said  crippled  or  mentally  or  physically  disabled  chil- 
dren while  attending  such  school. 

Chapter  237.  Section  462.  (First  paragraph)  It  shall  be  the 
duty  of  the  district  clerk,  between  the  tenth  and  twenty -fifth  days 
of  July  in  each  year,  excepting  in  cities  of  the  first  class  where  the 
school  census  shall  be  taken  between  March  first  and  June  first  of 
each  year,  to  make  and  transmit  to  the  county  or  city  superintend- 
ent, a  written  report  bearing  date  as  of  the  thirtieth  day  of  June, 
or  the  thirtieth  day  of  May  in  cities  of  the  first  class,  of  such  year, 
signed  by  him  and  verified  by  his  affidavit,  showing: 

First,  The  number,  names  and  ages  of  children,  male  and  female 
designated  separately,  over  the  age  of  four  and  under  the  age  of 
twenty  years  residing  in  the  district,  and  the  names  of  their  par- 
ents, guardians  or  other  persons  with  whom  such  children  resided, 
respectively,  on  the  last  day  of  May  or  June  preceding.  But  no 
such  children  residing  in,  held  or  cared  for  at  any  charitable  or 
penal  institution  of  this  state  shall  be  included  in  such  enumera- 
tion or  report;  and  whenever  the  state  superintendent  shall  receive 
information  that  any  such  children  have  been  enumerated  in  the 
school  census  of  any  school  district  included  in  the  reports  made 
to  him,  on  the  basis  of  which  apportionment  of  money  from  the 
school  fund  income  is  made,  he  may  require  from  the  district  clerk 
or  the  secretary  of  the  board  of  education  of  said  district  a  verified 
statement  of  the  whole  number  of  children  of  school  age  residing 
in  the  district  not  excluded  by  the  provisions  of  this  section,  in  such 
form  and  manner  as  the  said  superintendent  may  prescribe.  Un- 
less the  certificate  herein  provided  for  shall  be  made  no  monej 
shall  be  apportioned  for  the  benefit  of  said  school  district. 

(20.24)  (4)  Annually,  within  thirty  days  after  the  tenth  day  oJ 
December,  the  state  superintendent  shall  ascertain  an  aggregate 
amount  consisting  of  (a)  all  moneys  in  the  common  school  fund 


SCHOOL  LAWS  OP  WISCONSIN,    1917  21 

income  received  prior  to  the  first  day  of  December  in  the  same  year, 
(b)  the  two  hundred  thousand  dollars  appropriated  thereto  from 
the  general  fund  by  section  20.25  of  the  statutes,  (c)  all  moneys 
thereafter  to  accrue  thereto  from  the  state  tax  levied  in  the  same 
year  by  section  20.25  of  the  statutes,  including  interest  charges 
accruing  thereon  or  to  be  collected  therewith  as  special  charges 
From  the  total  of  items  (b)  and  (c)  he  shall  deduct  the  estimated 
total  of  all  appropriations  made  therefrom  by  section  20.25.  The 
remainders  of  items  (b)  and  (c),  together  with  all  of  item  (a),  he 
shall  apportion  among  the  several  counties,  and  the  towns,  villages, 
and  cities  therein,  except  as  prescribed  in  subsection  (5),  in  pro 
portion  to  the  number  of  children  resident  therein  between  the 
ags  of  four  and  twenty  years,  as  shown  by  the  reports  made  to  the 
state  superintendent  for  the  year  preceding,  ending  June  thirtieth 
or  May  thirtieth  as  the  case  may  be. 

This  changes  the  time  for  taking  the  school  census  in  cities  of  the 
first  class  only.  It  also  changes  the  time  when  the  state  superintend- 
ent may  certify  the  annual  apportionment  to  towns,  villages  and 
cities. 

Chapter  260.  Section  439b.  2.  When  of  his  personal  know- 
ledge, or  by  report  or  complaint  from  any  resident  of  the  city,  or  by 
report  or  complaint  as  provided  herein,  a  truant  officer  believes 
that  any  child  is  unlawfully  and  habitually  absent  from  elementary 
school,  continuation  school,  or  any  other  school  which  the  minor  is 
by  law  compelled  to  attend,  provided  the  minor  is  not  otherwise  re- 
ceiving instruction  as  provided  in  section  43 9a  as  amended,  he 
shall  immediately  investigate  and  render  all  service  in  his  power, 
to  compel  such  child  to  attend  some  public,  parochial  or  private 
school  which  the  person  having  control  of  the  child  shall  designate, 
or  if  over  fourteen  and  under  sixteen  years  of  age  to  attend  school 
or  become  regularly  employed  at  home  or  elsewhere,  and  upon  fail- 
ure he  shall  serve  a  written  notice  as  required  in  section  4  of  this 
act  and  proceed  as  hereinafter  provided  against  the  person  having 
charge  of  such  child.  And  in  all  towns  and  villages  the  sheriff  of 
the  county,  his  undersheriff  and  deputies  shall  be  the  truant  offi- 
cers, and  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  all  truant  officers  named  in  this 
section  to  enforce  the  provisions  of  this  act  as  provided  herein. 

Gives  additional  powers  to  truant  officers  and  should  be  studied  by 
school  boards. 

Chapter  269.  Section  450e.  1.  After  September  1,  1919,  every 
person  to  obtain  any  form  of  a  license  or  certificate  to  teach  in  any 
public  school  in  this  state  shall  have  completed  at  least  two  years 
of  work  in  a  high  school  having  a  four-year  course  of  study,  or  the 
full  and  fair  equivalent  of  such  work,  and  in  addition  thereto  shall 
have  completed  at  least  one  year  of  instruction  and  training  pre- 
paratory to  the  work  of  teaching;  after  September  1,  1921,  every 


22  SCHOOL  LAWS  OP  WISCONSIN,   1917 

person  to  obtain  any  form  of  a  license  or  certificate  to  teach  in  any 
public  ischool  in  the  state  shall  have  completed  a  four-year  high 
school  course  of  study,  or  a  full  and  fair  equivalent  thereof,  and 
in  addition  thereto  shall  have  completed  at  least  one  year  of  in- 
struction and  training  preparatory  to  the  work  of  teaching.  Pro- 
vided that  none  of  the  restrictions  mentioned  in  this  subsection 
shall  apply  to  any  person  who  has  had  prior  to  September  1,  1919, 
at  least  one  year's  experience  in  teaching  in  a  public  school,  or  who 
holds  an  unexpired  license  or  teacher',s  certificate.  Any  person  to 
obtain  any  form  of  license  to  teach  in  any  public  school  in  any  city 
or  county  of  the  state  shall  meet  all  other  legal  requirements  for 
teachers'  certificates.  Nothing  in  this  subsection  shall  be  construed 
to  limit  the  powers  conferred  by  law  upon  the  state  board  of  exam- 
iners, and  upon  the  state  superintendent  in  the  issuance  of  state 
licenses  and  state  certificates,  upon  the  recommendation  of  the  state 
board  of  examiners  or  upon  the  state  superintendent  in  the  issuance 
of  state  licenses  and  state  certificates  authorized  by  law. 

2.  The  additional  year  of  instruction  and  training  beyond  high 
school  graduation,  or  its  equivalent  may  be  obtained  at  a  Wiscon- 
sin state  normal  school,   a   county  training  school  for  teachers,   a 
Wisconsin  high  school  offering  a  course  legally  authorized  and  es- 
tablished for  the  training  of  teachers,  or  in  any  public  school  in 
rank  above  high  school  offering  a  course  for  the  training  of  teach- 
ers equivalent  to  that  offered  in  the  state  normal  schools  of  Wis- 
consin. 

3.  The  one  year  of  additional  instruction  "required  in  this  section 
shall  include  a  review  of  the  branches  required  by  law  to  be  taught 
in  the  common  schools  of  the  state,  a  study  of  the  manual  of  the 
course  of  study,   school  management,  and  at  least  ten  weeks  each 
of  observation  and  practice  teaching,  and  such  other  studies  as  may 
be  required  by  the  state  superintendent  of  public  instruction. 

4.  Whenever  the  supply  of  legally  qualified  teachers  in  any  county 
has  been   exhausted,  the   county  or  city  superintendent,   with   the 
approval  of  the   state  superintendent,   may  issue  certificates  upon 
examination  to   as  many  persons,   who  do  not  have  the  foregoing 
qualifications,  as  are  necessary  to  supply  the  schools  in  said  county, 

Is  of  importance  to  persons  who  are  preparing  themselves  for 
teaching  and  should  receive  attention  by  teachers  and  school  officers. 

Chapter  284.  20.24  (5)  (b)  No  apportionment  shall  be  made  to 
any  city,  village  or  town  for  any  school  district  therein  for  any 
year  during  which  such  district  shall  not  have  maintained  a 
common  school  taught  by  a  qualified  teacher,  at  a  salary  of  not  less 
than  forty-five  dollars  per  month,  for  at  least  eight  months;  unless 
the  state  superintendent  shall  be  satisfied  that  such  school  was 
maintained  and  so  taught  for  at  least  three  months,  and  the  failure 
to  maintain  and  so  teach  it  for  eight  months  was  occasioned  by 
some  extraordinary  cause  not  arising  from  intention  or  neglect  on 


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the  part  of  the  responsible  officers.  Time  spent  by  the  teacher  or 
teachers  of  such  district  in  attendance  upon  an  institute  in  the 
county,  shown  by  due  reports  to  have  been  allowed  by  the  district 
board  without  deduction  from  such  teacher's  wages  shall  be  counted 
as  part  of  such  eight  months. 

Fixes  the  minimum  wage  of  teachers  at  $45  per  month.  It  will 
become  the  duty  of  school  district  boards  to  amend  any  contracts  in 
accordance  with  this  law  when  such  contracts  already  are  based  upon 
the  former  minimum  wage  of  $40  per  month. 

Chapter  285.  Section  439a.  1.  Any  person  having  under  his 
control  any  child  between  the  ages  of  seven  and  fourteen  years,  or 
any  child  between  the  ages  of  fourteen  and  sixteen  years  not  regu- 
larly and  lawfully  employed  in  any  useful  employment  or  service  at 
home  or  elsewhere,  shall  cause  such  child  to  be  enrolled  in  and  to 
attend  some  public,  parochial  or  private  school  regularly  (regular 
attendance  for  the  purpose  of  this  statute  shall  be  an  attendance 
of  twenty  days  in  each  school  month,  unless  the  child  can  furnish 
some  legal  excuse),  in  cities  of  the  first  class  during  the  full  period 
and  hours  of  the  calendar  year  (religious  holidays  excepted)  that 
the  public,  parochial  or  private  school  in  which  such  child  is  en- 
rolled may  be  in  session;  in  all  other  cities  not  less  than  eight 
school  months;  and  in  towns  and  villages  not  less  than  six  school 
months  in  each  year,  and  all  children  subject  to  the  provisions  of 
this  act  shall  be  enrolled  in  some  public,  parochial  or  private  school 
within  one  school  month  after  the  commencement  of  the  school 
term  in  the  district  in  which  such  children  reside,  except  that  in 
cities  of  the  first  class  such  children  shall  be  enrolled  at  the  time 
of  the  opening  of  the  school  which  they  will  attend  (and  the  word 
"term,"  for  the  purposes  of  this  act,  shall  be  construed  to  mean  the 
entire  time  that  school  is  maintained  during  the  school  year) ;  pro- 
vided that  this  section  shall  not  apply  to  any  child  not  in  proper 
physical  or  mental  condition  to  attend  school,  who  shall  present  the 
certificate  of  a  reputable  physician  in  general  practice  to  that  ef- 
fect, nor  to  any  child  who  lives  in  country  districts  more  than  two 
miles  by  the  nearest  traveled  road  from  the  schoolhouse  in  the  dis- 
trict where  such  child  resides,  except  that  children  between  the  ages 
of  nine  and  fourteen  living  between  two  and  three  miles  from  school 
by  the  nearest  traveled  road  shall  attend  school  regularly  at  least 
sixty  days  during  the  year;  provided  that  if  transportation  is  furn- 
ished by  the  district  this  exemption  as  to  distance  shall  not  apply,  nor 
shall  this  section  apply  to  any  child  who  shall  have  completed  the 
course  of  study  for  the  common  schools  of  this  state  or  the  first 
eight  grades  of  work  as  taught  in  state  graded  or  other  graded 
schools  of  Wisconsin,  and  can  furnish  the  proper  diploma,  certifi- 
cate, or  credential  showing  that  he  has  completed  one  of  said 
courses  of  study,  or  its  equivalent.  Instruction  during  the  required 
period  elsewhere  than  at  school,  by  a  teacher  or  instructor  selected 
by  the  person  having  control  of  such  child  shall  be  equivalent  to 


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school  attendance,  provided  that  such  instruction  received  else- 
where than  in  .school  be  at  least  substantially  equivalent  to  instruc- 
tion given  to  children  of  like  ages  in  the  public,  parochial  or  priv- 
ate school  where  such  children  reside.  Any  person  who  shall  vio- 
late the  provisions  of  this  section  shall  upon  conviction  thereof,  be 
punished  by  a  fine  of  not  less  than  five  dollars  nor  more  than  fifty 
dollars,  together  with  costs  of  prosecution,  or  by  imprisonment  in 
the  county  jail  not  exceeding  three  months,  or  by  both  such  fine 
and  imprisonment  in  the  discretion  of  the  court,  for  each  offense. 
It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  district  attorney  and  his  assistants  to 
prosecute  in  the  name  of  the  state  all  violations  of  the  provisions 
of  this  section.  Any  person  who  shall  be  proceeded  against  under 
the  provisions  of  this  section  may  prove  in  defense  that  he  is  unable 
to  compel  the  child  under  his  control  to  attend  school  or  to  work, 
and  he  shall  be  thereupon  discharged  from  liability,  and  such  child 
shall  be  proceeded  against  as  incorrigible,  or  otherwise,  according 
to  law,  and  in  case  of  commitment,  if  the  parents  or  person  having 
control  of  such  child  desire  it,  such  child  .shall  be  committed  to  a 
school  or  association  controlled  by  persons  of  the  same  religious 
faith  as  such  child,  which  is  willing  and  able  to  receive  and  main- 
tain it  without  compensation  from  the  public  treasury.  When  in 
any  proceedings  under  this  section  there  is  any  doubt  as  to  the  age 
of  any  child,  a  verified  baptismal  certificate  or  a  duly  attested  birth 
certificate  shall  be  produced  and  filed  in  court.  In  case  such  cer- 
tificates cannot  be  secured,  upon  proof  of  such  fact,  the  record  of 
age  stated  in  the  first  school  enrollment  of  such  child  or  first  school 
enrollment  to  be  found  shall  be  admissible  as  evidence  thereof. 

2.  Prosecutions  for  violation  of  this  section  may  also  be  brought 
in  the  juvenile  court  in  and  for  the  county  in  which  such  violations 
occur,  and  said  court  is  hereby  granted  full  and  concurrent  juris- 
diction thereof. 

Chapter  285.  Teachers,  parents,  school  officers,  and  truant  offi- 
cers should  become  familiar  with  the  provisions  of  this  act.  It  re- 
quires the  attendance  of  children  between  9  and  14  years  of  age  in 
certain  cases.  It  is  the  duty  of  the  Industrial  commission  to  con- 
sider violations. 

Chapter  317.  Section  560g.  Every  school  district  not  composed 
wholly  or  in  part  of  an  incorporated  village  or  city,  and  any  school 
district  in  which  all  of  the  school  buildings  are  located  outside  the 
corporate  limits  of  any  city  or  village,  which  shall  have  maintained 
a  school  or  schools  for  nine  months  the  previous  year,  provided  a 
suitable  school  building,  or  buildings,  and  outbuildings,  needful 
apparatus,  supplementary  readers,  and  installed  an  adequate  sys- 
tem of  ventilation,  and  done  efficient  work,  shall,  for  the  purposes 
of  this  act,  be  deemed  to  have  maintained  a  rural  school  or  schools 
of  the  first  class,  provided  that  state  graded  schools  organized  and 
maintained  under  section  49 6d  of  the  statutes  shall  not  be  consid- 
ered rural  schools  of  the  first  class. 


SCHOOL  LAWS   OF  WISCONSIN,    1917  25 

Section  5 6 Oh.  Any  district  maintaining  a  rural  school  or  schools 
of  the  second  class  shall  be  entitled  to  a  share  in  all  state  and 
county  school  moneys.  Any  district  maintaining  a  rural  school  or 
schools  of  the  first  class  shall  be  entitled,  in  addition  to  the  moneys 
specified  for  rural  schools  of  the  second  class,  to  special  state  aid 
to  the  amount  of  fifty  dollars  annually,  provided  the  district  has 
fully  complied  with  the  provisions  of  sections  560g,  560i,  560j,  560k, 
and  5601. 

Section  5601.  To  each  district  which  shall  comply  with  all  the 
provisions  of  sections  560g,  560h,  560i,  560j,  and  560k,  and  whose 
application  for  aid  shall  have  been  approved  by  him,  the  state  sup- 
erintendent shall  apportion  the  sum  of  fifty  dollars  for  each  rural 
school  of  the  first  class  maintained  by  said  district  which  shall  be 
paid  in  the  same  manner  as  other  forms  of  special  state  aid  are 
now  paid. 

This  chapter  amends  sections  560g,  5  6  Oh,  560i  and  restores  the 
fifty  dollar  per  year  special  aid  law  for  certain  schools  under  certain 
conditions  mentioned  in  section  2.  It  must  also  be  understood  that 
it  is  possible  for  a  school  district  to  come  under  this  statute  one 
year  and  fail  the  next  owing  to  the  fact  that  the  teaching  has  not 
been  efficient,  or  that  nine  months  of  school  has  not  been  maintained. 
What  shall  be  considered  as  constituting  a  first-class  rural  school 
will  likely  be  mentioned  in  a  special  leaflet. 

^Chapter  340.  Section  515g.  1.  The  school  board  of  any  school 
district  or  the  board  of  education  of  any  city,  in  addition  to  the 
powers  now  conferred  upon  them  by  law,  may  provide  for  the  ex- 
change of  any  teacher  employed  by  such  board  for  a  teacher  of  any 
school  district  of  any  other  state.  No  such  exchange  shall  be  for 
a  longer  period  than  one  year  and  any  teacher  of  this  state  so  ex- 
changed shall  be  deemed  to  have  taught  during  said  period  in  the 
school  district  in  which  he  or  she  was  employed  at  the  time  the  ex- 
change was  made. 

2.  Any  teacher  from  another  state,  taking  the  place  of  a  Wiscon- 
sin teacher  in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of  subsection  1  of  this 
section,  shall  be  assessed,  for  the  benefit  of  the  Wisconsin  teachers' 
insurance  and  retirement  fund,  the  full  amount  which  would  other- 
wise have  been  assessed  against  the  Wisconsin  teacher  so  exchanged. 
Such  assessment  shall  be  credited  to  the  Wisconsin  teacher  ex- 
changed in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of  subsection  1  of  this 
section. 

This  is  a  peculiar  law.  It  may  be  of  some  interest  to  venturesome 
teachers  who  desire  a  change  of  environment. 

Chapter  343.  20.32.  (1)  (c)  For  each  such  pupil  residing 
within  the  state  but  not  within  the  district  or  city  maintaining  the 
day  school,  who  finds  it  necessary  to  pay  for  board  or  transporta- 
tion, or  both,  in  or  to  such  district  or  city,  in  order  to  attend  such 
school,  and  who  while  so  boarding  or  being  transported  attends 


26  SCHOOL  LAWS   OF  WISCONSIN,    1917 

the  day  school  for  a  period  of  at  least  nine. months,  an  additional 
one  hundred  twenty-five  dollars;  provided  such  expense  for  board 
or  transportation,  or  both,  is  not  borne  by  the  parent  or  guardian 
of  such  child. 

(20.32)  (3)  Such  moneys  shall  be  carried  as  special  funds  for 
each  such  school.  The  school  board  or  board  of  education  may  use 
such  part  thereof  as  it  shall  find  necessary,  for  board  and  transpor- 
tation of  pupils  as  specified  in  paragraph  (c)  of  subsection  (1),  or 
in  payment  for  medical  examination  or  treatment  of  any  pupil  in 
such  day  school  in  case  the  parent  or  guardian  is  financially  unable 
to  pay  for  such  .services;  and  the  state  aid  for  day  schools  for  the 
blind  may  be  applied  in  part  for  instruction  in  music  and  manual 
training,  and  for  material  and  printing  in  connection  with  the  work 
of  the  school.  Any  surplus  at  the  end  of  the  year  shall  remain 
available  until  expended;  provided,  in  case  any  school  board  or 
board  of  education  shall  discontinue  such  day  school,  any  balance 
remaining  in  said  fund  after  the  payment  of  the  expense  of  main- 
taining such  day  school  shall  be  returned  to  the  state  treasurer. 

Section  579m.  1.  Any  parent  or  guardian  having  under  his  con- 
trol a  deaf  or  blind  child  between  the  ages  of  six  and  eighteen 
years  who  is  incapacitated  for  attending  a  common  school,  shall 
cause  such  child  to  attend  some  public,  private,  parochial,  or  state 
school  established  for  the  instruction  and  education  of  the  deaf  or 
blind,  for  a  period  of  at  least  eight  months  during  each  school  year, 
provided  this  shall  not  apply  to  any  child  over  sixteen  years  of  age 
who  shall  have  completed  the  eighth  grade  or  who  shall  be  regu- 
larly employed  in  a  gainful  occupation. 

Chapter  344.  Section  560g — 1.  1.  If  any  school  district  not 
composed  wholly  or  in  part  of  an  incorporated  village  or  city,  or 
any  school  district  in  which  all  of  the  school  buildings  are  located 
outside  the  corporate  limits  of  any  city  or  village  shall  have  re- 
tained or  shall  hereafter  retain  any  teacher  after  the  first  year,  such 
teacher  shall  be  entitled  to  receive .  state  aid  as  follows,  provided 
such  teacher  is  not  employed  in  a  graded  school  of  two  or  more  de- 
partments or  in  a  high  school  in  such  district:  if  such  teacher  shall 
be  retained  for  and  shall  have  successfully  taught  such  .school  dur- 
ing a  second  year,  two  dollars  per  month  for  each  month  of  such 
year  during  which  the  school  maintained  in  such  district  is  taught 
by  such  teacher;  if  for  a  third  year,  four  dollars  for  each  such 
month;  and  if  for  a  fourth  or  any  succeeding  year,  eight  dollars, 
for  each  such  month. 

2.  If  any  school  district  not  composed  wholly  or  in  part  of  an  incor- 
porated village  or  city,  or  any  school  district  in  which  all  of  the  school 
buildings  are  located  outside  the  corporate  limits  of  any  city  or 
village  in  which  the  school  shall  haye  been  successfully  taught  for 
the  whole  or  part  of  any  year  by  a  teacher  who  is  a  graduate  from 
a  rural  school  course  of  two  years  beyond  high  school  graduation 


SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  WISCONSIN,   1917  27 

in  any  normal  school  or  county  training  school  of  this  state,  or 
equivalent  thereof,  such  teacher  shall  be  entitled  to  special  state 
aid  of  ten  dollars  for  each  month  during  which  such  school  is  taught 
by  such  teacher.  For  each  succeeding  year  that  such  teacher  shall 
be  retained  and  shall  continue  to  teach  such  school  successfully,  he  or 
she  shall  be  entitled  to  special  state  aid  in  the  sum  of  fifteen  dollars 
for  each  such  month,  provided  that  no  aid  under  this  subsection  shall 
be  paid  to  any  teacher  employed  by  such  district  in  a  graded  school 
of  two  or  more  departments  or  in  a  high  school  maintained  by  such 
district.  Any  person  receiving  state  aid  under  the  provisions  of 
this  subsection  shall  not  be  entitled  to  state  aid  under  the  provi- 
sions of  subsection  1  of  this  section. 

6.  If  upon  the  indorsement  of  the  county  or  district  superintend- 
ent upon  an  application  for  state  aid  or  upon  an  appeal  therefrom 
the  state  superintendent  shall  be  satisfied  that  such  teacher  is  en- 
titled to  state  aid,  he  shall  approve  said  application  and  at  the  close 
of  "the  school  year  certify  to  the  secretary  of  state  the  name  of  the 
teacher  and  the  amount  due  such  teacher  under  the  provisions  of 
this  section  stating  whether  the  claim  is  allowed  under  subsection 
1  or  subsection  2  of  this    section.     The    secretary    of    state    shall 
thereupon  draw  his  warrant  upon  the  state  treasurer  for  the  amount 
of  such  claim  in  favor  of  the  said  teacher.    The  state  treasurer  shall 
mail  a  draft  in  favor  of  each  such  teacher  to  the  county  or  district 
superintendent   in   whose    district    the    teacher   has    taught.      Such 
county    or    district    superintendent   shall    forthwith    transmit   such 
draft  to  the  teacher  entitled  thereto. 

7.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  each  county  or  district  superintendent 
to  keep  a  complete  record  of  all  applications  approved  by  him  show- 
ing separtely  the  claims  allowed  under  subsection  1  and  under  sub- 
section 2  of  this  section,  and  of  all  payments  made  under  the  pro- 
visions of  this  section  showing  the  name  of  the  teacher,  the  length 
of  time  such  teacher  has  taught,  the  district  in  which  he  or  she  has 
taught,  and  the  school  or  schools  where  such  teacher  received  his 
training.      The  state  superintendent  of  public  instruction  shall  in- 
clude in  his  reports  a  statement  of  the  moneys  disbursed  under  the 
provisions  of  this  section. 

This  chapter  amends  subsections  1,  2,  6  and  7  of  section  56 Og— 1. 
This  law  is  commonly  known  as  the  two,  four,  eight  dollar  law.  The 
apportionment  to  the  rural  school  teachers  is  made  directly  from 
the  state  treasury  to  the  county  superintendents  in  behalf  of  the 
teachers.  It  will  be  noted  that  the  teacher  who  receives  this  special 
aid  must  be  employed  in  a  school,  the  buildings  of  which  are  located 
outside  the  corporate  limits  of  a  village  or  city  and  furthermore 
that  the  aid  is  not  given  to  any  teacher  employed  in  a  state  graded 
school  or  a  high  school  under  any  conditions. 

Chapter  359.  Section  388.  Any  student  who  shall  have  been  a 
resident  of  the  state  for  one  year  next  preceding  his  first  admission 
to  the  university,  or  any  student  whose  parents  have  been  bona 
fide  residents  of  this  state  for  one  year  next  preceding  the  begin- 


28  SCHOOL  LAWS  OP  WISCONSIN,   1917 

ning  of  any  semester  for  which  such  student  enters  the  university, 
shall  be  entitled  to  exemption  from  fees  for  tuition,  but  not  from 
incidental  fees  in  the  university.  Any  student  who  shall  not  have 
been  a  resident  of  the  state  for  one  year  next  preceding  his  first  ad- 
mission to  the  university,  except  as  above  provided,  shall  not  be 
exempt  from  the  payment  of  the  tuition  fees  until  he  shall  have  at- 
tended the  university  for  four  academic  years;  but  if  he  shall  have 
attended  the  university  for  one  academic  year  and  the  next  three 
years  shall  have  been  spent  as  a  resident  of  this  state;  or  if  he 
shall  have  attended  the  university  for  two  academic  years  and  the 
next  two  years  shall  have  been  spent  as  a  resident  of  this  state;  or 
if  he  shall  have  attended  the  university  for  three  academic  years 
and  the  next  year  shall  have  been  spent  as  a  resident  of  this  state, 
he  shall  be  entitled  to  exemption  from  payment  of  the  tuition  fees 
upon  reentering  the  university.  The  regents  shall  charge  tuition 
at  the  rate  of  one  hundred  and  twenty-four  dollars  per  school  year 
for  any  student  who  shall  not  have  been  exempted  by  any  of  the 
provisions  of  this  section,  and  may  prescribe  rates  of  tuition  for 
teaching  extra  studies,  and  for  students  in  the  university  extension, 
and  summer  session  divisions.  However,  the  regents  of  the  uni- 
versity may  remit  either  in  whole  or  in  part  tuition,  but  not  inci- 
dental fees,  to  a  number  of  needy  and  worthy  nonresident  students, 
not  exceeding  eight  per  cent  of  the  number  of  nonresident  students 
registered  in  the  preceding  year,  upon  the  basis  of  merit,  to  be  shown 
by  suitable  tests,  examinations  or  scholastic  records  and  continued 
high  standards  of  scholastic  attainment. 

Chapter  388.  Section  3327a.  All  contracts  Involving  one  hun- 
dred dollars  or  more  hereafter  made  or  let  for  the  performance  of 
any  work  or  labor  or  furnishing  any  materials  when  the  same  per- 
tains to  or  is  for  or  in  or  about  any  public  building,  public  improve- 
ment, public  road,  alley  or  highway,  or  any  other  public  work  of 
whatsoever  kind  of  the  state,  or  of  any  county,  city,  village,  town, 
school  district,  or  of  any  public  board  or  body,  shall  contain  a  pro- 
vision for  the  payment  by  the  contractor  of  all  claims  for  such  work 
and  labor  performed  and  materials  furnished,  and  no  such  contract 
shall  hereafter  be  made  or  let  unless  the  contractor  shall  give  a 
good  and  sufficient  bond,  the  penalty  of  which  shall  not  be  less  than 
the  contract  price,  conditioned  for  the  faithful  performance  of  the 
contract,  and  the  payment  to  each  and  every  person  or  party  en- 
titled thereto  of  all  the  claims  for  work  or  labor  performed,  and 
materials  furnished  for  or  in  or  about  or  under  such  contract,  such 
bond  in  the  case  of  the  state  to  be  approved  by  the  governor,  of  a 
county  by  its  district  attorney,  of  a  city  or  village  by  its  attorney, 
if  it  has  one,  and  if  not,  then  by  the  mayor  or  president,  respec- 
tively, thereof,  of  a  town  by  its  chairman,  of  a  school  district  by  the 
director  or  president  of  the  school  board,  and  in  case  of  any  other 
public  board  or  body  by  the  presiding  officer  thereof.  No  assign- 


SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  WISCONSIN,    1917  29 

ment,  modification  or  change  of  the  contract,  or  change  in  the  work 
covered  thereby,  nor  any  extension  of  time  for  completion  of  the 
contract  shall  release  the  sureties  on  said  bond. 

Any  party  in  interest  may,  within  one  year  after  the  completion 
and  acceptance  of  said  contract,  maintain  an  action  in  his  own  name 
against  such  contractor  and  the  sureties  upon  such  bond  required 
by  this  section  for  the  recovery  of  any  damages  he  may  have  sus- 
tained by  reason  of  the  failure,  refusal  or  neglect  of  said  contractor 
to  comply  with  the  aforesaid  terms  and  conditions  of  said  contract 
or  any  of  the  terms  and  conditions  of  the  contract  between  said  con- 
tractor and  subcontractors.  If  the  amount  realized  on  said  bond 
be  insufficient  to  satisfy  all  of  the  claims  of  the  parties  in  interest 
in  full,  such  amount  shall  be  distributed  among  said  parties  pro 
rata. 

This  chapter  is  of  interest  to  all  parties  entering  into  contracts  for 
public  buildings.  School  boards  must  take  notice  of  its  provisions. 

"Chapter  403.  Section  454a.  1.  All  persons  who  apply  to  the 
state  board  of  examiners  for  a  state  license  on  the  basis  of  work 
done  in,  or  graduation  from,  an  institution  located  outside  the  state 
of  Wisconsin,  shall  pay  a  fee  of  one  dollar  for  the  examination  of 
their  papers,  records,  and  credentials.  All  such  persons,  before  re- 
ceiving a  state  certificate,  shall  pay  an  additional  fee  of  one  dollar 
before  a  state  certificate  shall  be  issued. 

2.  The  fee  for  the  examination  of  the  papers  by  the  state  board 
of  examiners,  and  the  fee  for  the  issuance  of  a  state  certificate,  shall 
be  payable  to  the  state  superintendent  of  public  instruction. 

Section  20.23.  There  is  appropriated  from  the  general  fund  to 
the  state  board  of  teachers'  examiners,  annually,  beginning  July  1, 
1917,  one  thousand  dollars,  for  the  execution  of  its  functions.  All 
moneys  received  by  each  and  every  person  for  or  in  behalf  of  said 
superintendent  under  the  provisions  of  section  454a  shall  be  paid 
within  one  week  after  receipt  into  the  general  fund,  and  are  appro- 
priated therefrom  and  added  to  this  appropriation.  Of  this  there 
is  allotted  to  each  member  of  said  board  a  per  diem  of  five  dollars 
per  day  for  time  actually  and  necessarily  spent  in  going  to,  hold- 
ing, and  returning  from  examinations,  and  his  actual  and  necessary 
traveling  expenses  incurred  in  the  discharge  of  his  official  duties. 

This  chapter  creates  a  new  section  requiring  that  all  persons  who 
apply  to  the  State  Board  of  Examiners  for  a  state  license  on  the 
basis  of  work  done  in,  or  graduation  from,  an  institution  located 
outside  the  state  of  Wisconsin,  shall  pay  a  fee  of  one  dollar  for  the 
examination  of  their  papers,  records  and  credentials.  Such  persons 
receiving  a  state  license  are  qualified  legally  to  teach  in  the  public 
schools  of  this  state  for  one  year,  which  may  be  renewed  for  a 
second  year  upon  presentation  of  evidence  of  satisfactory  experience. 
At  the  close  of  two  years  of  successful  teaching,  on  a  license,  in  the 
public  schools  of  this  state,  a  life  state  certificate  may  be  issued, 
for  which  an  additional  fee  of  one  dollar  is  charged. 


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Chapter  405.  Section  411 — 4.  The  state  superintendent  shall 
give  such  information  and  assistance  as  may  seem  necessary  in  or- 
ganizing and  maintaining  such  training  schools.  He  shall  prescribe 
the  course  of  study  to  be  pursued;  shall  have  the  general  supervi- 
sion of  all  schools  established  under  this  section;  shall  from  time 
to  time  inspect  the  same,  make  such  recommendations  relating  to 
their  management  as  he  may  deem  necessary,  and  make  such  re- 
ports thereon  as  shall  give  full  information  concerning  their  num- 
ber, character,  and  efficiency;  provided,  that  he  shall  not  place  upon 
the  said  list  more  than  thirty-five  schools. 

(20.31)  (2)  (a)  The  state  superintendent  shall  keep  a  list  of 
not  more  than  thirty-five  of  such  training  schools,  whose  course  of 
study  and  the  qualifications  of  whose  teachers  have,  on  application, 
been  approved  by  him;  and  any  such  training  school  once  entered 
on  such  list  may  remain  listed  and  be  entitled  to  state  aid  so  long 
as  the  scope  and  character  of  its  work  are  maintained  in  such  man- 
ner as  to  meet  his  approval. 

Chapter  412.  Section  391.  1.  The  board  of  regents  of  the  state 
university  is  hereby  authorized  to  establish  and  to  maintain,  when 
sufficient  funds  are  available,  a  training  school  for  public  service. 
Such  school  shall  be'  a  professional  school  and  shall  be  devoted  to 
practical  training,  for  the  administrative  service  of  the  state  of  Wis- 
consin or  of  any  county  or  municipality  therein,  or  of  civic  organi- 
zations. 

2.  Persons  who  have  satisfactorily  completed  the  work  required 
in  the  training  school  for  public  service  shall,  upon  graduation,  re- 
ceive a  proper  university  degree  and  a  diploma  in  public  adminis- 
tration stating  the  particular  character  of  their  training.     No  per- 
son shall  receive  such  diploma  unless  at  least  one-third  of  his  total 
credits  in  such  school  shall  be  for  actual  work  in  municipal,  county, 
or  state  departments  or  in  quasi-public  work  and  unless  he  shall 
have  submitted  a  thesis  dealing  with  an  actual  problem  of  munici- 
pal, county  or  state  service  based  on  actual  service  in  or  contact 
with  such  service  and  approved  by  the  head  of  the  department  of 
such  municipality,  county  or  state  with  which  such  problem  is  prin- 
cipally concerned. 

3.  Any  member  of  the  faculty  of  the  university  of  Wisconsin  may 
be  required,  under  rules  prescribed  by  the  regents,  to  give  instruc- 
tion in  such  school. 

4.  Such   school   shall    provide   adequate    supplementary    training 
for  persons  now  in  county,  municipal  or  state  service. 

Chapter  416.  Section  55.3p — 14.  1.  The  said  board  shall  es- 
tablish and  maintain  the  necessary  courses  for  the  thorough  in- 
struction and  training  of  teachers  in  the  principles  and  practice  of 
the  industrial  arts  and  of  home  economics  and  household  arts.  Such 
courses  shall  include  such  instruction  in  the  comprehension  and 


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use  of  the  English  language,  in  mathematics,  science,  history,  liter- 
ature, economics,  and  sociology,  with  special  reference  to  the  bear- 
ing of  such  instruction  upon  the  teaching  of  the  industrial  arts  and 
of  home  economics  and  household  arts,  as  shall  give  not  only  tech- 
nical instruction  and  training  for  the  vocation  of  teaching  but  also 
the  instruction  needed  for  good  citizenship  and  for  a  broad  and 
sympathetic  knowledge  and  appreciation  of  the  reciprocal  rights, 
duties,  and  relations  of  the  individual,  the  state,  and  society  and  of 
the  conditions  for  results  in  production  and  in  the  distribution  of 
the  products  of  industry  which  are  essential  to  give  the  greatest 
efficiency  and  the  largest  measure  of  justice  to  every  individual. 

2.  Such  courses  shall  be  established  as  four-year  courses.  Stu- 
dents who  shall  satisfactorily  complete  such  courses  shall  receive 
from  the  Stout  Institute,  under  the  seal  of  the  institute,  the  degree 
of  bachelor  of  science  in  industrial  arts  and  in  home  economics  and 
household  arts. 

This  chapter  enlarges  the  courses  of  study  at  Stout  Institute,  Me- 
nomonie,  gives  the  privilege  of  granting  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of 
Science.  This  institute  is  by  this  act  of  the  legislature  recognized 
as  being  on  an  equal  footing  with  other  technical  schools  and  col- 
leges in  this  and  other  states. 

Chapter  427.  Section  486t.  The  board  of  education  of  any  city, 
however  organized,  or  the  district  board  of  any  school  district  may 
provide  lunches  for  children  attending  the  public  schools  at  a  price 
to  cover  the  cost  of  the  food,  provided  that  indigent  children  or 
children  of  poor  parents  may  receive  such  lunches  at  such  a  price 
and  under  such  conditions  as  the  board  of  education  or  the  district 
board  may  determine;  provided,  further,  that  the  conditions  under 
which,  and  the  pupils  to  whom,  such  food  is  furnished  at  less  than 
cost,  shall  not  be  disclosed  to  any  other  pupils. 

This  chapter  authorizes  boards  of  education  and  district  boards  to 
provide  lunches  for  school  children  and  restricts  the  price  that  may 
be  charged  therefor.  The  purpose  of  this  law  is  to  keep  the  children 
in  such  physical  condition  that  they  may  be  able  to  do  satisfactory 
school  work.  School  work,  like  any  other  work,  requires  that  the 
worker  shall  be  well  fed  and  nourished. 

Chapter  436.  Section  553p — 4.  3.  The  rate  of  tax  levied  for  the 
purposes  of  sections  553p — 1  to  553p — 15,  inclusive,  in  any  town, 
village  or  city  shall  not  in  any  one  year  exceed  three-fourths  mill 
for  the  maintenance  of  all  schools  created  under  said  sections. 

Sections  553p — 1  to  553p — 15  relate  to  industrial  and  continua- 
tion schools  maintained  under  the  supervision  of  the  State  Industrial 
board.  The  former  aid  was  one-half  mill  on  the  dollar.  This  in- 
creases the  appropriation  50%. 

"Chapter  438.  Section  427.  1.  Special  meetings  shall  be  called 
by  the  clerk,  or  in  his  absence  by  the  director  or  treasurer,  on  the 


32  SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  WISCONSIN,   1917 

written  request  of  five  legal  voters  of  the  district,  and  notices 
thereof  specifying  particularly  the  business  to  be  transacted  shall 
be  posted  in  the  manner  prescribed  for  calling  the  annual  meeting; 
and  the  electors  when  lawfully  assembled  at  a  special  meeting  shall 
have  power  to  transact  the  same  business  as  at  the  first  or  the  an- 
nual meeting,  except  the  election  of  officers,  voting  a  tax  to  com- 
pensate the  clerk  and  authorizing  a  change  in  textbooks.  But  no 
more  than  two  such  meetings  to  consider  the  same  subject  shall  be 
held  in  the  district  in  the  same  school  year.  No  tax  or  loan  or  debt 
shall  be  voted  at  a  special  meeting  unless  three-fourths  of  the  legal 
voters  shall  have  been  notified  either  personally  or  by  a  written 
notice  left  at  their  places  of  residence,  stating  the  time,  place  and 
objects  of  the  meeting,  and  specifying  the  amount  proposed  to  be 
voted,  at  least  six  days  before  the  time  appointed  therefor,  exclus- 
ive of  the  day  on  which  the  meeting  is  to  be  held. 

2.  If  the  school  district  includes  within  its  boundaries  all  or  part 
of  a  city  or  an  incorporated  village,  it  shall  be  lawful  to  give  notice 
of  special  or  annual  school  meetings  by  publication  in  a  newspaper, 
if  one  be  regularly  published  in  the  city  or  village.     Such  notice 
shall  be  printed  in  two  issues  one  week  apart,  the  last  of  which 
shall  be  published  and  mailed  not  more  than  eight  days  and  not 
less  than  one  day  before  the  day  the  election  is  to  be  held,  .such  day 
not  to  be  counted.     The  special  meeting  shall  be  held  at  the  hour 
fixed  in  the  notice,  but  if  no  hour  is  fixed  the  meeting  shall  be  held 
at  eight  o'clock  in  the  afternoon.      Publication  of  notice  does  not 
avoid  posting  the  notices  as  required  by  statutes  in  force.     It  shall 
also  be  lawful  for  the  school  board  to  pay  the  cost  of  publication  at 
legal  rates  from  the  district  treasury.  | 

3.  If  a  new  district  is  created,  the  first  meeting  of  the  electors  as 
provided  by  law  shall  be  deemed  an  annual  meeting. 

This  chapter  amends  section  427  and  provides  that  two  special 
school  meetings  to  consider  the  same  subject  may  be  held  during  the 
year.  Heretofore  the  statute  restricted  the  electors  to  one  special 
meeting.  It  is  also  provided  in  this  chapter  that  in  cases  where  the 
school  district  embraces  a  village  or  city,  the  notice  of  special  meet- 
ings or  annual  meetings  may  be  given  by  publication.  It  is  the  inten- 
tion of  this  part  of  the  law  to  avoid  the  necessity  for  serving  notices 
personally  or  by  copies  left  at  places  of  residence  upon  at  least  three- 
fourths  of  the  electors  of  these  usually  heavily  populated  districts 
when  it  is  possible  to  give  such  notices  in  accordance  with  the  above 
statutory  provisions. 

Chapter  441.  Section  430 — 1.  1.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the 
school  board  of  any  consolidated  rural  school  district  formed  in  ac- 
cordance with  the  provisions  of  sections  496 — 1  to  496 — 8,  to  pro- 
vide transportation  to  and  from  such  consolidated  school  for  the  en- 
tire school  year  for  all  children  between  the  ages  of  six  and  sixteen 
in  the  district  residing  more  than  two  miles  from  such  consolidated 
school. 

2.  It  shall  be  lawful  for  the  electors  of  any  school  district  to  au- 


SCHOOL  LAWS   OF  WISCONSIN,    1917  33 

thorize  the  district  board  to  provide  transportation  to  and  from 
school  for  any  or  all  of  the  children  of  school  age  residing  in  the  dis- 
trict for  whom  transportation  is  not  required  by  law.  In  any  school 
district  where  the  electors  have  failed  or  refused  to  provide  transpor- 
tation for  children  living  more  than  two  miles  from  the  school  in  the 
home  district  and  from  a  school  in  an  adjoining  district,  the  parent 
or  guardian  of  any  such  child  may  transport  him  to  school  in  the 
home  district  or  to  a  school  in  an  adjoining  district,  and  shall  be 
paid  for  such  services  by  the  district  in  which  he  resides  at  the  rate 
of  twenty  cents  per  day  for  each  child  so  transported,  provided  the 
child  while  being  so  transported  attended  school  for  not  less  than 
five  months.  In  all  such  cases  the  transportation  must  be  safe,  com- 
fortable and  convenient.  The  district  shall  be  reimbursed  ten  cents 
per  day  for  each  such  child  who  while  being  transported  attended 
school  for  at  least  five  months.  The  aid  shall  be  paid  by  the  state  as 
provided  in  sections  430 — 5,  430 — 6  and  430 — 9,  of  the  stautes. 

3.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  school  board  of  any  district  in  which 
the  electors  have  voted  to  suspend  all  of  the  schools  in  the  district 
to  provide  for  the  payment  of  the  tuition  of  all  children  of  school 
age  residing  in  the  district  who  desire  to  attend  school  in  some  ad- 
joining district  or  districts  during  such  time  as  the  district  school 
is  suspended,  and  to  provide  transportation  to  and  from  school  for 
a  period  of  at  least  six  months  during  the  school  year  or  for  such 
time  as  the  district  school  is  suspended,  for  all  children  between  the 
ages  of  six  and  sixteen  residing  more  than  one  mile  from  the  nearest 
school. 

Section  430 — 2.  In  all  cases  where  the  electors  of  any  district 
at  the  annual  meeting  or  at  a  subsequent  special  meeting  prior  to 
the  third  Monday  of  November  fail  to  levy  a  tax  sufficient  to  pay  for 
the  tuition1  or  transportation  or  both  required  by  law,  or  authorized 
by  the  electors,  the  school  board,  on  or  before  the  Wednesday  next 
following  the  said  third  Monday  in  November,  shall  determine  the 
sum  necessary  to  pay  for  tuition  or  transportation,  or  both,  as  the 
case  may  be,  and  the  district  clerk  shall  at  once  certify  to  the  town 
or  village  clerk  the  amount  so  fixed  and  when  so  certified  to  the 
town  or  village  clerk  such  amount  shall  be  levied  and  collected  as 
other  district  taxes  are  now  levied  and  collected. 

Section  430 — 3.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  board  of  any  school 
district,  when  authorized  by  the  electors  or  required  by  law  to  pro- 
vide transportation,  to  enter  into  written  contracts  in  the  name  of 
the  district  with  the  parents  or  guardians  or  other  persons  for  trans- 
porting or  providing  for  the  transportation  to  and  from  school  of  all 
persons  of  school  age  who  attend  and  who  are  entitled  to  transpor- 
tation. Such  contracts  must  provide  that  the  children  shall  be  ac- 
tually transported  in  a  safe  and  comfortable  manner  in  a  convey- 
ance provided  with  protection  against  cold  and  inclement  weather. 
The  driver  of  each  conveyance  shall  be  of  good  moral  character, 
trustworthy,  and  responsible.  Such  driver  shall  have  control  of  the 


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children  and  be  responsible  for  their  good  behavior  while  going  to 
and  returning  from  school.  He  shall  not  use  profane  or  improper 
language  and  shall  prohibit  the  use  of  such  language  on  the  part  of 
the  children.  He  shall  report  all  cases  of  insubordination  to  the 
parents  and  to  the  teacher  or  principal  of  the  school.  In  all  cases 
where  a  contract  is  entered  into  with  a  person  other  than  the  parent 
or  guardian  of  the  children  to  be  transported,  such  person  shall  file 
a  bond  in  the  sum  of  three  hundred  dollars  running  to  the  school  dis- 
trict with  approved  sureties  in  double  the  amount;  said  bond  to  be 
forfeited  to  the  district  in  case  of  failure  of  such  person  to  provide 
transportation  in  accordance  with  terms  of  the  contracts,  as  speci- 
fied in  this  section. 

Section  430 — 4.  If  in  the  judgment  of  the  school  board  of  any 
district  it  is  to  the  interest  of  the  district  to  provide  board  and  lodg- 
ing in  lieu  of  transportation  for  all  or  a  part  of  the  period  for  which 
transportation  has  been  authorized  by  the  electors  or  is  required  by 
law  for  children  residing  more  than  four  miles  from  the  nearest 
school  in  the  home  district  or  in  an  adjoining  district,  it  shall  be  le- 
gal and  shall  be  the  duty  of  such  .school  board  to  make  arrange- 
ments whereby  such  children  shall  be  boarded  in  a  suitable  place 
not  more  one  mile  from  a  school.  The  school  board  shall  make  a 
contract  with  the  person  or  persons  with  whom  such  child  or  chil- 
dren board,  and  shall  pay  for  the  board  and  lodging  of  such  pupil 
or  pupils  out  of  the  fund  provided  for  transportation,  provided  the 
amount  so  paid  for  board  and  lodging  of  any  child  shall  not  exceed 
two  dollars  and  seventy-five  cents  per  school  week  of  five  days. 

Section  430 — 5.  The  school  board  of  the  district  in  which  the 
pupil  resides  and  the  principal  teacher  of  the  school  in  which  the 
pupil  is  enrolled  shall  on  or  before  the  first  day  of  August  of  each 
year  make  under  oath  a  report  giving  the  name  of  each  pupil  trans- 
ported more  than  two  miles;  the  number  of  days  transportation  was 
provided  for  such  pupil;  the  number  of  days  such  pupil  attended  while 
being  transported;  the  distance  from  the  home  of  such  pupil  to  the 
school;  the  amount  paid  for  transportation,  to  whom  paid,  and  such 
other  information  as  the  state  superintendent  may  require.  In  case 
board  and  lodging  have  been  provided  in  accordance  with  section 
430 — 4,  said  report  shall  give  the  name  of  each  pupil  so  boarded  and 
lodged,  the  number  of  days  such  pupil  attended  while  being  boarded, 
the  distance  from  the  home  of  such  pupil  to  the  nearest  school  in 
the  home  district  or  an  adjoining  district,  distance  from  the  board- 
ing place  to  the  school  attended,  the  amount  paid  for  board  and 
lodging,  to  whom  paid,  and  such  other  information  as  the  state  su- 
perintendent may  require. 

Section  430 — 6.  Upon  receipt  of  such  report,  if  the  state  super- 
intendent shall  be  satisfied  that  transportation  or  board  and  lodging 
have  been  provided  in  accordance  with  law,  he  shall  certify  to  the 
secretary  of  state  the  amount  due  such  district  on  account  of  provid- 
ing transportation  or  board  and  lodging,  or  both,  said  amount  to  be 
determined  as  follows: 


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(1)  For  each  pupil  residing  more  than  two  miles  and  not  more 
than  three  miles  from  the  school  for  whom  transportation  was  pro- 
vided for  at  least  six  months,  or  for  such  time  as  required  by  law, 
and  who  attended  not  less  than  five  months  while  being  so  trans- 
ported, ten  cents  per  day  for  each  day  attended  while  being  trans- 
ported. 

(2)  For  each  pupil  residing  more  than  three  miles  but  not  more 
than  four  miles  from  school  for  whom  transportation  was  provided 
for  at  least  six  months  or  for  such  time  as  required  by  law,  and  who 
attended  not  less  than  five  months  while  being  transported,  fifteen 
cents  per  day  for  each  day  attended  while  being  transported. 

(3)  For  each  pupil  residing  more  than  four  miles  from  school 
for  whom  transportation  was  provided  for  at  least  six  months  or  for 
such  time  as  required  by  law,  or  who,  residing  more  than  four  miles 
from  the  nearest  school  in  the  home  district  or  in  an  adjoining  dis- 
trict, was  boarded  in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of  section  430 
— 4,  and  who  attended  not  less  than  five  months  while  being  trans- 
ported or  boarded,  twenty  cents  a  day  for  each  day  attended  while 
being  transported  or  boarded. 

(4)  In  case  of  any  pupils  for  whom  transportation  was  provided 
for  at  least  six  months  or  during  such  time  as  said  pupil  resided  in 
the  district  but  who  failed  to  attend  five  months  while  being  trans- 
ported, the  district  shall  receive  the  aid  as  provided  in  paragraphs 
(1)    to   (3),  inclusive,  provided  such  failure  to  attend  five  months 
was  due  to  absence  from  the  district  or  any  other  legal  excuse. 

Section  430 — 7.  Whenever  the  electors  of  any  rural  district  con- 
taining one  or  more  one-department  rural  schools  shall  direct  the 
school  board  to  close  all  the  schools  in  the  district,  each  such  district 
shall  be  entitled  to  special  state  aid  as  hereinafter  provided,  upon 
complying  with  the  following  conditions: 

(1)  Tuition  shall  be  paid  for  all  persons  of  school  age  who  may 
desire  to  attend  school  at  a  district  maintaining  a  one  or  two  depart- 
ment rural  school,  or  a  state  graded  school,  or  the  grades  below  the 
free  high  school  in  a  free  high  school  district  for  at  least  thirty-two 
weeks,  including  legal  holidays,  and  transportation  shall  be  provided 
for  the  same  period  of  time  for  all  such  pupils  who  reside  more  than 
one  mile  from  the  nearest  school  in  an  adjoining  district. 

(2)  The  average   daily  attendance  of  pupils  transported  under 
the  provisions  of  this  section  from  any  district  to  the  school  in  any 
rural  school  district,  or  to  a  state  graded  school,  or  to  the  grades  in 
a  district  maintaining  a  free  high  school,  shall  be  at  least  eighty  per 
cent  of  the  entire  number  enrolled  for  transportation  to  such  school 
during  each  term  of  school. 

(3)  The  district  board  shall,  in  all  cases  where  the  school  is 
closed  and  transportation  is  provided  by  team,  enter  into  a  written 
contract  in  the  name  of  the  district  with  one  or  more  persons  where- 
by it  is  agreed  that  such  person  or  persons  are  to  transport  or  pro- 
vide for  transporting  the  children  in  a  safe  and  comfortable  manner 


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to  and  from  the  school  or  schoolg  in  the  district  where  provision  has 
been  made  for  their  schooling.  The  children  shall  be  transported 
in  a  safe  and  comfortable  manner  in  a  conveyance  provided  with 
protection  against  cold  and  inclement  weather.  The  driver  of  each 
conveyance  shall  be  of  good  moral  character,  trustworthy,  and  re- 
sponsible. Such  driver  shall  have  control  of  the  children  and  be  re- 
sponsible for  their  good  behavior  while  going  to  and  returning  from 
school.  He  shall  not  use  profane  or  improper  language  and  shall 
prohibit  the  use  of  such  language  on  the  part  of  the  children.  He 
shall  report  all  cases  of  insubordination  to  the  parents  and  to  the 
teacher  or  principal  of  the  school.  Provided  that  in  cases  where  it 
is  practicable,  conveyance  by  interurban,  steam  railway,  or  automo- 
bile shall  be  equivalent  to  transportation  by  team.  In  all  cases 
where  a  contract  is  entered  into  with  a  person  other  than  the  parent 
or  guardian  of  the  children  to  be  transported,  such  person  shall  file 
a  bond  in  the  sum  of  three  hundred  dollars  running  to  the  district, 
with  approved  sureties  in  double  the  amount;  said  bond  to  be  for- 
feited to  the  district  in  case  of  failure  of  such  person  to  provide 
transportation  in  accordance  with  terms  of  the  contract,  as  specified 
in  this  section. 

(4)  No  state  aid  under  the  provisions  'of  this  section  shall  be 
paid  to  any  district  providing  transportation  and  tuition  for  its  pu- 
pils at  a  district  maintaining  a  rural  school  of  one  or  more  depart- 
ments, unless  the  school  in  the  district  where  such  nonresident  chil- 
dren attend  shall  be  a  first  class  rural  school  as  defined  in  sections 
5  6 Of  to   560m,  inclusive,   and   acts   amendatory   thereof,   and   it   is 
further  provided  that  in  case  the  district  entering  into  a  contract 
for  the  schooling  of  nonresident  pupils,  according  to  the  provisions 
of  this  section,  shall  fail  to  maintain  a  first  class  rural  school  as  pro- 
vided in  sections  5 6 Of  to  560m,  inclusive,  then  such  school  district 
shall  forfeit  its  right  to  collect  tuition  from  the  district  where  such 
nonresident  children  reside  for  such  school  year  or  part  of  a  school 
year  that  the  school  in  such  school  district  shall  not  have  been  main- 
tained as  a  first  class  rural  school. 

(5)  The  school  board  of  each  district  taking  advantage  of  this 
section  shall  make  annually,  on  or^before  the  first  day  of  August,  a 
special  report,  under  oath  to  the  state  superintendent  of  public  in- 
struction,  showing  that  the   above   conditions  have   been   complied 
with,  and  this  report  shall  give  the  names  and  ages  of  the  persons 
transported,  the  number  of  days  each  such  person  was  transported, 
and  attended  school,  the  rate  of  tuition  paid,  the  amount  of  tuition 
paid  for  each  person,  and  such  other  information  as  the  state  super- 
intendent may  require. 

(6)  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  county  superintendent  of  schools 
in  any  county  where  a  district  takes  advantage  of  the  provisions  of 
this  section  and  provides  transportation  and  tuition  at  a  rural  school, 
as  provided  in  paragraphs   (1)  to   (4),  inclusive,  to  report  annually 
to  the  state  superintendent,  upon  the  blanks  furnished  by  him,  such 
information  as  he  may  require  for  the  purpose  of  ascertaining  if  the 


SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  WISCONSIN,    1917  37 

rural  school  in  such  district  during  the  year  for  which  aid  is  claimed 
was  maintained  as  a  first  class  rural  school,  according  to  the  provi- 
sions of  sections  560f  to  560m,  inclusive. 

(7)  In  case  of  a  disagreement  concerning  the  standard  of  work 
done  in  any  rural  school,  the  decision  of  the  state  superintendent 
shall  be  final,  and  he  shall  have  power,  either  in  person  or  through 
inspectors  of  schools,  to  investigate  the  quality  of  work  done  and 
equipment  offered  in  any  of  the  schools  accepting  nonresident  pu- 
pils under  the  provision  of  this  section. 

(8)  If  upon  receipt  of  the  report,  as  provided  in  paragraphs  (5) 
and   (6)   of  this  section,  the  state  superintendent  shall  be  satisfied 
that  the  district  has  complied  with  all  the  requirements  of  this  sec- 
tion, he  shall  certify  such  fact  to  the  secretary  of  state,  who  there- 
upon shall  draw  a  warrant  in  favor  of  the  treasurer  of  such  district 
for  a  sum  equal  to  the  amount  expended  by  such  district  for  tuition 
and  transportation,  provided  such  amount  shall  in  no  case  exceed 
one  hundred  fifty  dollars  for  any  one  district;   provided,  further,  a 
district  receiving  the  special  state  aid  provided  in  this  section  shall 
not  be  eligible  to  receive  special  state  aid  for  transportation,  as  pro- 
vided in  section  430 — 6. 

Section  430 — 8.  In  sections  430 — 1  to  430 — 7,  inclusive,  the 
word  "distance"  shall  be  interpreted  to  mean  distance  as  measured 
by  the  nearest  traveled  highway. 

Section  430 — 9.  Each  district  complying  with  the  provisions  of 
subsection  3  of  section  430 — 1  of  section  430 — 7,  shall  receive  the 
same  apportionment  of  state  and  other  taxes  as  provided  by  law,  as 
would  have  been  received  had  school  been  maintained  in  the  district. 

(20.2?)  (3)  Annually,  such  sums  as  may  be  necessary,  for 
transportation  and  tuition  of  pupils,  as  provided  in  sections  430 — 1 
to  430 — 9,  inclusive,  of  the  statutes. 

(20.26)  (2)  (c)  The  amount  of  state  aid  for  each  graded 
school  shall  be  computed  upon  the  following  basis:  for  a  graded 
school  of  the  first  class,  three  hundred  dollars;  for  a  graded  school 
of  the  second  class,  two  hundred  dollars;  for  a  graded  school  of 
either  class  in  which  special  instruction  in  agriculture  or  other  in- 
dustrial subjects,  as  may  be  prescribed  by  the  state  superintendent, 
shall  have  been  offered  and  presented  in  an  efficient  manner  by  a 
competent  teacher  and  approved  by  the  state  superintendent,  an  ad- 
ditional one  hundred  dollars. 

This  chapter  is  a  reenactment  of  the  different  transportation  laws. 
For  the  sake  of  convenience,  they  have  been  gathered  under  one 
heading.  In  this  way  they  can  be  easily  studied  and  compared. 
Special  attention  must  be  given  to  sections  430 — 3,  430 — 4,  430 — 5, 
and  430 — 6.  This  latter  section  should  be  carefully  studied.  Care- 
ful study  should  also  be  given  to  section  430-7. 

Members  of  school  boards  may  rest  assured  that  if  a  complaint  is 
made  that  the  transportation  has  not  been  such  as  required  by  this 
statute,  the  aid  which  might  otherwise  be  received  by  the  district  will 
be  withheld  therefrom.  No  half-way  doings,  and  failure  to  secure  a 
competent,  gentlemanly  driver,  a  comfortable  vehicle,  properly 


38  SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  WISCONSIN,   1917 

equipped,  and  a  good  team,  because  the  contractor  was  the  lowest 
bidder,  will  meet  the  demands  of  these  laws. 

Chapter  442.  Section  424a.  1.  All  orders  heretofore  made  by 
any  town  board  or  boards  or  board  of  village  trustees  or  city  coun- 
cil jointly  or  severally,  or  by  any  committee  or  committees  on  com- 
mon schools  or  upon  appeal  to  such  committee  or  committees  or  the 
state  superintendent  creating  new  districts,  consolidating  districts 
or  changing  school  district  boundaries,  are  hereby  declared  valid 
and  binding  notwithstanding  there  may  have  been  some  defect  of 
parties  or  defect  in  manner  of  service  or  giving  notice. 

This  chapter,  creating  section  424a,  is  a  remedial  statute  having 
for  its  purpose  the  prevention  of  delayed  litigation  in  matters  per- 
taining to  changes  in  school  district  boundaries. 

Chapter  451.  (20.21)  (2)  Annually,  beginning  July  1,  1917, 
not  to  exceed  five  thousand  four  hundred  dollars,  for  institutes  for 
the  instruction  of  teachers  pursuant  to  section  407,  and  for  conduct- 
ing a  state  teachers'  and  a  state  young  people's  reading  circle  organ- 
ized by  the  Wisconsin  teachers'  association.  Not  to  exceed  six  hun- 
dred fifty  dollars  of  this  appropriation  is  allotted,  annually,  for  such 
reading  circles. 

This  appropriation  comes  from  the  state  normal  school  fund  in- 
come. 

Chapter  462.  Section  474b.  The  electors  of  any  common  school 
district,  or  consolidated  district,  or  state  graded  school  district,  or 
free  high  school  district,  or  town  or  union  free  high  school  district, 
joint  or  otherwise  assembled  at  any  special  or  annual  meeting,  regu- 
larly called,  are  hereby  empowered  to  authorize  the  board  to  borrow 
money  from  some  firm,  corporation,  bank,  or  individual,  or  from  the 
state  trust  funds,  for  the  purpose  of  purchasing  a  schoolhouse  site 
or  a  school  playground,  said  loan  to  be  made  for  a  period  of  not  to 
exceed  fifteen  years.  No  such  loan  shall  exceed  twenty-five  thou- 
sand dollars  and  in  no  case  shall  the  rate  of  interest  exceed  six  per 
cent  per  annum.  When  the  loan  is  made  from  the  state  trust  funds, 
the  rate  shall  be  four  per  cent  per  annum  payable  in  equal  annual 
installments  of  principal  and  interest. 

This  chapter  amends  section  474 — b.  It  empowers  the  electors  to 
authorize  the  school  board  to  borrow  money  from  the  trust  funds  or 
from  some  other  source  for  the  purpose  of  purchasing  a  school- 
house  site  in  addition  to  the  erection  of  a  schoolhouse. 

Chapter  490.  Section  1.  Section  9  of  Chapter  459  of  the  Laws 
of  1907  is  amended  to  read:  Section  9.  The  board  of  school  direc- 
tors shall  elect  by  ballot  at  the  regular  meeting  preceding  the  expi- 
ration of  the  term  of  office  of  the  superintendent  of  schools  who  is  in 
office  when  this  act  shall  become  effective,  a  person  of  suitable  learn- 


SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  WISCONSIN,   1917  39 

ing  and  experience  in  the  art  of  instruction,  and  practical  familiarity 
with  the  most  approved  methods  of  organizing  and  conducting  a 
system  of  schools,  for  superintendent  of  schools,  and  said  superin- 
tendent of  schools  shall  hold  his  office  until  the  first  day  of  July  next 
following  his  election  as  herein  provided,  and  for  three  years  there- 
after, except  in  case  of  removals  as  herein  provided,  and  each  third 
year  thereafter  the  said  board  shall  elect  at  the  first  regular  meeting 
in  January,  a  superintendent  of  schools,  as  provided  herein,  who 
shall  serve  for  the  term  of  three  years  from  the  first  day  of  July  next 
following  his  election. 

The  superintendent  of  schools  shall,  under  the  direction  of  the 
boards,  have  a  general  supervision  of  the  public  schools  and  of  the 
teachers  in  the  cities  aforesaid  and  of  the  manner  of  conducting  and 
grading  of  said  schools.  He  shall  appoint,  subject  to  confirmation, 
by  the  board,  assistant  superintendents  and  such  other  assistants  and 
supervisors  as  may  be  authorized  by  the  board.  Such  superintend- 
ent shall  be  an  advisory  member  of  every  committee  of  the  board, 
except  at  times  where  an  inquiry  into  his  acts  or  investigation  of 
his  official  conduct  shall  be  under  consideration  by  such  committee. 
A  committee,  consisting  of  the  president  of  the  board  and  four  mem- 
bers of  the  board  selected  by  the  president,  shall  on  a  strict  basis  of 
eligibility  and  fitness,  examine,  certificate,  employ,  classify,  transfer 
and  promote  teachers.  The  action  of  such  committee  shall  be  sub- 
ject to  amendment,  rejection  or  confirmation  by  the  board. 

The  president  of  the  board  and  four  members  of  the  board,  to  be 
selected  by  the  president,  shall  constitute  a  committee  to  select  and 
determine  courses  of  study  for  the  schools,  and  textbooks  to  be 
used  therein.  The  action  of  such  committee  shall  be  subject  to 
amendment,  rejection  or  confirmation  by  the  board. 

This  chapter  applies  to  cities  of  the  first  class.  Milwaukee  is  the 
only  first  class  city. 

"Chapter  494.  Section  553p — 1.  1.  There  is  hereby  created  a 
state  board  of  industrial  education.  The  board  shall  consist  of  nine 
appointive  members  to  be  appointed  by  the  governor,  three  of  whom 
shall  be  employers  of  labor,  three  of  whom  shall  be  skilled  employes 
other  than  those  who  have  employing  or  discharging  power,  and 
three  of  whom  shall  be  practical  farmers.  The  state  superintendent 
of  education  and  a  member  of  the  industrial  commission  to  be  se- 
lected by  the  commission  shall  be  ex  officio  members  of  this  board. 
A  majority  of  said  board  shall  constitute  a  quorum. 

2.  In  the  first  appointments  the  governor  shall  designate  three 
members  to  serve  for  two  years,  three  members  to  serve  for  four 
years,  and  three  members  to  serve  for  six  years,  from  the  first  day 
of  July  of  the  year  in  which  the  appointments  are  made.  Each  such 
group  of  three  members  shall  consist  of  one  employer,  one  employe, 
and  one  farmer.  All  appointments  thereafter  shall  be  for  six  years 
except  appointments  to  fill  vacancies,  which  shall  be  for  the  unex- 
pired  portion  of  the  term. 


40  SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  WISCONSIN,   1917 

3.  Said  board:   (1)  Shall  have  control  over  all  state  aid  given  un- 
der sections  553p — 1  to  553p — 15,  inclusive,  and  section  20.33,  of 
the  statutes;    (2)   shall  meet  quarterly  and  at  such  other  times  as 
may  be  found  necessary;    (3)   shall  elect  its  own  officers;    (4)  shall 
report  biennially;    (5)   may  employ  a  director  of  vocational  educa- 
tion and  assistants  for  the  development  and  supervision  of  the  work 
of  industrial  education  provided  for  in  this  act,  and  all  accounts  for 
such  salaries  shall  be  certified  by  the  secretary  of  said  board  to  the 
secretary  of  state.      (6)  shall  inaugurate  and  determine  the  organi- 
zation, plans,  scope  and  development  of  industrial  education  in  the 
state. 

4.  The  provisions  of  the  Act  of  Congress,  approved  February  23, 
1917,  (Public  No.  347,  64th  Congress)   entitled  "An  Act  to  provide 
for  the  promotion  of  vocational  education;  to  provide  for  coopera- 
tion with  the  states  in  the  promotion  of  such  education  in  agricul- 
ture and  the  trades  and  industries;  to  provide  for  cooperation  with 
the  state  in  the  preparation  of  teachers  of  vocational  subjects;  and 
cO  appropriate  money  and  regulate  its  expenditure",  are  hereby  ex- 
cepted.     The  State  Board  of  Industrial  Education  is  designated  as 
the  board  for  the  state  of  Wisconsin  to  cooperate  with  the  Federal 
Board  of  Vocational  Education  in  the  execution  of  the  provisions  of 
the  United  States  act  and  is  hereby  empowered  with  full  authority 
so  to  cooperate.     The  state  treasurer  is  hereby  designated  custodian 
of  all  funds  allotted  to  this  state  from  the  appropriations  made  by 
said  Act,  and  he  shall  receive  and  provide  for  the  proper  custody 
and  disbursement  of  the  same  in  accordance  with  said  Act. 

Section  553p — 2.  1.  Schools  created  under  sections  553p — 1 
to  553p — 15,  inclusive,  shall  be  known  as  vocational  schools.  The 
law  relating  to  agricultural  schools  and  the  Platteville  mining  trade 
school  shall  remain  unaffected  by  said  sections. 

2.  All  positions  except  that  of  director  of  vocational  education 
shall  be  filled  by  civil  service  examination  as  provided  by  sections 
990 — 1  to  990 — 32,  inclusive. 

(Section  553p — 4).  1.  The  local  board  of  industrial  education 
of  every  city,  village  or  town  shall  report  to  the  common  council,  or 
in  case  of  cities  having  commission  form  of  government  to  the  com- 
mission, or  to  the  village  or  town  clerk  at  or  before  the  first  day  of 
September  in  each  year,  the  amount  of  money  required  for  the  next 
fiscal  year  for  the  support  of  all  the  schools  established  or  to  be 
established  under  section  553p — 1  to  553p — 15,  inclusive,  in  said 
city,  village  or  town,  and  for  the  purchase  of  necessary  additions  to 
school  sites,  building  operations,  fixtures  and  supplies. 

(Section  553p — 5.)  1.  The  qualifications  of  teachers  and  the 
courses  of  study  in  these  schools  shall  be  approved  by  the  state  board 
of  industrial  education,  and  shall  include  English,  citizenship,  physi- 
cal education,  sanitation  and  hygiene  and  the  use  of  safety  devices, 
and  such  other  branches  as  the  state  board  of  industrial  education 
shall  approve. 


SCHOOL  LAWS  OP  WISCONSIN,    1917  41 

(Section  20.33).  (3)  The  remainder  shall  be  distributed  for 
state  aid  for  industrial  schools  established  and  maintained  pursuant 
to  subsection  1  of  section  553p — 3  of  the  statutes,  and  any  school 
once  granted  such  state  aid  shall  be  entitled  thereto  as  long  as  the 
character  of  its  work  meets  with  the  approval  of  the  state  board  of 
industrial  education,  as  follows: 

(a)  On  the  first  day  of  July  in  each  year  the  secretary  of  the  lo- 
cal board  of  industrial  education  of  each  city,  town,  or  village  main- 
taining such  a  .school  or  schools  shall  report  to  the  state  board  of 
industrial  education  the  cost  of  maintaining  the  same;  the  character 
of  the  work   done;    the  number,   names",  and   qualifications  of   the 
teachers  employed;  and  such  other  information  as  may  be  required 
by  the  said  board. 

(b)  If  it  appears  from  such  report  that  such  school  or  schools 
have  been  maintained  pursuant  to  law,  in  a  manner  satisfactory  to 
the  state  board  of  industrial  education,  the  state  board  of  industrial 
education  shall  certify  to  the  secretary  of  state,  in  favor  of  the  sev- 
eral local  boards  of  industrial  education,  amounts  equal  to  one-half 
the  amount  actually  expended,  respectively,  for  maintenance  of  such 
school  or  schools  and  salaries  for  instruction  and  supervision;   but 
not  to  exceed,  exclusive  of  federal  aid,  in  any  one  year,  twenty  thous- 
and dollars  for  any  city  of  the  first  class,  or  ten  thousand  dollars  for 
any  other  city,  town  or  village.    If  the  aggregate  of  such  amounts  ex- 
ceeds the  available  funds  of  this  appropriation,  the  state  board  of 
industrial  education  shall  deduct  from  each  an  equal  proportion  so 
as  to  reduce  their  aggregate  to  the  amount  of  the  available  funds. 

(c)  On  receipt   of  such  certificates  the   secretary  of  state   shall 
draw  his  several  warrants  accordingly,  payable  to  the  treasurers  of 
the  cities,  towns,  and  villages,  respectively. 

(Section  20.33)  (2).  The  director  of  vocational  education  and 
all  other  employes  of  such,  board  shall  receive  such  compensation  as 
shall  be  fixed  by  the  board,  and  shall  be  entitled  to  receive  their 
actual  and  necessary  traveling  expenses  incurred  in  the  discharge  of 
their  official  duties.  Such  compensation  and  expenses  shall  be 
charged  to  the  appropriation  to  the  state  board  of  industrial  educa- 
tion. 

Chapter  497.  Section  412.  (1)  Town  boards  of  supervisors, 
village  boards  of  trustees  and  city  councils  are  hereby  given  power, 
acting  jointly  or  separately  as  the  particular  case  under  considera- 
tion may  demand,  to  alter  school  district  boundaries,  and  to  create, 
consolidate,  or  dissolve  school  districts.  All  territory  comprising  a 
school  district  must  be  contiguous  and  the  number  of  a  school  dis- 
trict shall  not  be  changed  without  the  consent  of  the  state  superin- 
tendent. A  new  district  shall  not  be  given  the  name  of  a  dissolved 
district.  When  two  or  more  districts  are  united  or  in  any  manner 
consolidated,  such  enlarged  district  shall  bear  the  number  of  the 
district  involved  having  the  largest  assessed  valuation  as  detemined 
from  the  last  preceding  assessment. 


42  SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  WISCONSIN,   1917 

(2)  The  authorities  designated  above  may  meet  and  act  on  their 
own  motion  or  upon  call  of  any  board  or  council  in  any  way  inter- 
ested   in    the    alteration,   creation,    consolidation   or    dissolution    of 
school  districts.     The  refusal,  failure,  or  neglect  of  any  town  board, 
village  board,  or  city  council  to  call  or  to  hold  meetings  as  provided 
by  law,  or  neglect  or  refuse  to  take  any  action,  affirmative  or  nega- 
tive, upon  any  written  request  or  petition  of  an  individual,  or  upon 
call  of  any  board  or  council  interested,  giving  reasons  for  certain 
proposed  changes  of  district  boundaries,  or  the  creation,  consolida- 
tion or  dissolution  of  school  districts  shall  be  deemed  a  denial  there- 
of and  any  person  aggrieved  thereby  may  appeal  as  in  other  cases. 

(3)  Any  school  district  organization  of  any  kind,  town  free  high 
school  and  union  free  high  school  districts  excepted,  in  one  or  more 
towns  or  in  one  or  more  towns  and  any  village  or  city  shall  be  desig- 
nated as  a  joint  district.      Such  district  shall  not  be  dissolved,  nor 
shall  the  boundaries  thereof  be  changed  except  by  joint  action  of 
the  town  boards,  parts  of  which  comprise  such  district,  or  joint  ac- 
tion of  the  town  board  or  boards  and  the  village  board  or  common 
council  in  interest,  or  upon  appeal  to  proper  authority,  such  action 
to  be  taken  in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of  the  statutes  govern- 
ing and  directing  the  proceedings  and  action  in  each  case. 

Section  413.  (1)  The  town  board,  village  board,  or  city  coun- 
cil, as  the  conditions  may  demand,  shall  make  a  written  order  de- 
scribing any  territory  detached  from  one  district  and  attached  to  an- 
other. They  shall  also  specify  in  such  order  the  number  of  any  dis- 
trict dissolved  and  the  name  of  the  town  or  towns  part  of  which 
composed  it.  If  two  or  more  districts  are  united  wholly  the  num- 
ber of  each  such  district  shall  be  specified  and  also  the  number  of 
the  enlarged  district,  with  the  names  of  the  town  or  towns  and  the 
county  or  counties  interested.  A  copy  of  any  order  made  relating 
to  alteration,  or  formation,  or  consolidation  of  school  districts  shall 
be  filed  with  the  clerk  of  each  town,  village,  or  city  interested  within 
ten  days  from  the  day  the  order  is  made  and  no  order  of  change  of 
boundaries,  or  dissolution,  or  creation,  or  union  of  districts  shall  be 
made  to  take  effect  between  December  first  and  the  first  day  of  the 
following  April,  without  the  consent  of  the  state  superintendent. 

(2)  It  shall  also  be  the  duty  of  the  town  board,  village  board  or 
city  council,  as  the  case  may  be,  to  deliver  to  a  taxable  inhabitant 
of  the  new  district  or  of  any  consolidated  district  formed  under  their 
authority,  a  notice  describing  the  territory  embraced  therein  and 
fixing  a  time  and  place  for  the  first  district  meeting.  In  such  notice 
said  officers  shall  direct  such  taxable  inhabitant  to  notify  all  quali- 
fied voters,  men  and  women,  of  the  district,  either  personally  or  by 
leaving  a  written  or  printed  notice  at  the  place  of  residence  giving 
the  time  and  place  of  such  first  meeting  at  least  six  days  before  the 
time  fixed  therefor,  the  day  of  the  meeting  to  be  counted  as  one  of 
the  six.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  such  taxable  inhabitant  to  notify 
the  voters  as  directed;  to  keep  a  record  of  the  persons  so  notified 
and  make  due  return  thereof  and  such  record  and  certificate  of 


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service  shall  be  recorded  by  the  district  clerk  elected  as  a  part  of 
the  permanent  record  and  minutes  of  the  first  meeting  in  such  newly 
created  or  consolidated  district;  provided,  however,  that  an  unin- 
tentional omission  of,  or  failure  to  notify  not  to  exceed  one-sixth  of 
said  voters  shall  not  invalidate  said  notice  or  deprive  the  electors  at 
the  meeting  of  jurisdiction  to  transact  any  and  all  district  business 
as  provided  by  the  statutes. 

(3)  If  such  notice  is  not  given  by  the  taxable  inhabitant  as  di- 
rected, or  if  the  inhabitants  being  so  notified  neglect  or  refuse  to 
meet,  or  if  there  is  no  competent  authority  in  the  district  to  call  any 
district  meeting,  the  town  board  of  the  town  interested  having  the 
largest  population  shall  give  and  cause  the  notice  to  be  served. 

Section  416.  A  district  shall  be  deemed  organized  when  any  two 
of  the  officers  elected  at  its  first  legal  meeting  file  with  the  clerk  and 
cause  to  be  recorded  in  the  minutes  of  such  meeting  their  written 
acceptance  of  the  offices  to  which  they  have  been  respectively  elected 
or  when  said  officers  shall  have  failed  for  a  period  of  ten  days  or 
more  to  state  their  refusal  in  writing.  A  district  shall  also  be 
deemed  legally  formed  when  it  has  been  duly  organized  and  has  ex- 
ercised the  rights  and  privileges  of  a  district  for  a  period  of  four  or 
more  months,  and  no  appeal  or  other  action  attacking  the  legality  of 
the  formation  of  such  district,  either  directly  or  collaterally,  shall 
be  taken  after  such  period  has  expired. 

Section  418.  Whenever  the  proper  authorities  of  any  municipal 
unit  or  units  shall  contemplate  an  alteration,  creation,  consolidation 
or  dissolution  of  any  district,  they  shall  meet  and  shall  give  at  least 
five  day's  notice  in  writing  to  the  clerk  of  each  district  to  be  in  any 
way  affected  thereby.  Said  notice  shall  be  signed  by  a  majority  of 
each  board  interested  and  shall  give  the  day,  hour,  and  place  where 
they  will  be  present  to  decide  upon  the  proposed  changes  and  the 
day  of  meeting  shall  not  be  counted  as  one  of  the  five.  It  shall  also 
be  the  duty  of  each  district  clerk  to  immediately  notify  the  other 
members  of  his  school  board.  The  person  serving  these  notices  shall 
make  due  "return"  thereof  and  said  "return"  shall  be  filed  in  the  of- 
fice of  the  clerk  of  each  municipal  unit  interested.  No  territory  shall 
be  detached  from  one  district  unless  by  the  same  order  it  be  attached 
to  another.  A  district  may  be  dissolved  by  consolidation,  by  attach- 
ing all  its  territory  in  tracts  or  parcels  to  other  districts  or  by  creat- 
ing new  districts.  It  shall  not  be  lawful  to  give  the  above  required 
notice  by  mail  or  by  telephone. 

Section  419.  In  all  cases  where  a  change  of  school  district  boun- 
daries has  been  made,  or  a  school  district  created  or  consolidated 
or  dissolved,  a  copy  of  the  order  so  made  shall  be  filed  with  the 
clerk  of  each  municipal  unit  interested  and  also  with  the  clerk  of 
each  district  in  any  way  affected  within  ten  days  after  date  of  the 
order. 

Section  420.  If  a  new  district  be  formed  in  whole  or  in  part  from 
one  or  more  districts  possessed  of  a  schoolhouse  or  entitled  to  other 
property  the  town  board  or  boards  or  other  authorities  at  the  time 


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of  forming  such  new  district  shall  determine  the  proportion  of  the 
value  of  the  schoolhouse,  moneys  on  hand  and  other  property  justly 
due  to  such  new  district  according  to  the  taxable  property  of  the  re- 
spective parts  of  such  former  district  or  districts  at  the  time  of  the 
division,  and  such  amount  of  any  debt,  except  a  debt  to  the  state  be- 
cause of  a  loan  from  the  trust  funds,  due  from  the  former  district 
which  would  have  been  a  charge  upon  the  new  district  had  it  re- 
mained in  the  former  district,  shall  be  deducted  from  such  propor- 
tion. 

This  chapter  reenacts,  changes  and  rearranges  former  sections  re- 
lating to  the  formation  of  school  districts  and  alterations  of  school 
district  boundaries.  The  methods  of  procedure  to  be  followed  in  the 
different  cases  which  arise  when  division,  consolidation,  or  dissolu- 
tion of  school  districts,  or  a  change  of  school  district  boundaries  is 
contemplated  are  given  in  detail  on  pages  364  and  beyond  of  the 
School  Code  for  1915. 

It  will  be  observed  in  studying  this  law  that  the  refusal  of  the 
supervisors  to  take  any  action  whatever  in  certain  cases  is  the  basis 
for  an  appeal.  The  purpose  of  this  statute  is  to  give  every  individual 
feeling  himself  aggrieved  by  the  action  or  non-action  of  the  authori- 
ties designated  by  statute  to  perform  certain  duties  with  reference  to 
school  districts,  an  opportunity  to  have  his  case  heard  without  hard- 
ship or  expense.  In  other  words,  it  is  a  measure  designed  for  relief 
of  parties  or  individuals  from  what  may  be,  by  them,  deemed  arbi- 
trary or  unjust  action  or  refusals  to  act.  The  rules  and  regulations 
governing  appeals  are  provided  on  pages  396  and  beyond  of  the 
School  Code  of  1915.  Through  reading  these  directions,  it  will  be 
recognized  by  any  individual  that  an  appeal  is  intentionally  made 
an  inexpensive  matter. 

Chapter  499.  Section  553m — 109.  District  school  boards  and 
boards  of  education  are  empowered,  and  directed  and  it  is  made 
their  duty  to  adopt,  for  their  respective  schools  from  the  list  of 
school  textbooks  on  file  with  the  state  superintendent  of  public  in- 
struction, as  provided  by  law,  all  the  school  textbooks  necessary  for 
use  in  the  schools  under  their  charge,  and  such  school  textbooks 
when  so  adopted  shall  not  be  changed  for  five  years. 

Section  553m — 110.  School  districts  are  hereby  authorized  to 
purchase  out  of  the  funds  of  the  district,  texbooks  direct  from  the 
publishers  at  the  prices  listed  with  the  state  superintendent  of  pub- 
lic instruction  as  provided  by  law  to  sell  said  book  to  the  pupils  at 
the  actual  cost  to  the  district. 

Section  553m — 111.  School  districts  are  hereby  authorized  to 
purchase  out  of  the  funds  of  the  district,  school  textbooks  from  the 
publishers  at  the  prices  listed  with  the  state  superintendent  of  pub- 
lic instruction  as  provided  by  law  and  to  designate  a  retail  dealer 
or  dealers  to  act  as  the  agent  of  the  district  in  selling  textbooks  to 
pupils.  The  said  dealer  or  dealers  shall  at  stated  times  make  settle- 
ment with  the  district  for  such  books  as  have  been  sold  up  to  the 
stated  time.  Said  dealer  or  dealers  shall  not  sell  textbooks  at 
prices  which  shall  exceed  a  ten  per  cent  advance  on  the  net  prices 
as  listed  with  the  state  superintendent  of  public  instruction.  Any 


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dealer  violating  the  provisions  of  this  section  shall  be  guilty  of  a 
misdemeanor,  and  upon  conviction,  shall  be  fined  not  less  than  twen- 
ty-five dollars  and  not  more  than  one  hundred  dollars. 

Section  553m — 112.  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  retail  dealer 
in  textbooks  to  sell  any  books  listed  with  the  state  superintendent 
of  public  instruction  as  provided  by  law  at  a  price  to  exceed  fifteen 
per  cent  advance  on  the  net  prices  as  so  listed,  transportation  added 
thereto.  Any  dealer  violating  the  provisions  of  this  section  shall  be 
guilty  of  misdemeanor,  and,  upon  conviction  shall  be  fined  not  less 
than  twenty-five  dollars  and  not  more  than  one  hundred  dollars. 

Section  2.  This  act  shall  not  operate  to  prevent  any  school  dis- 
trict from  furnishing  free  textbooks  to  the  pupils  attending  the 
schools  in  such  district  provided  such  textbooks  shall  be  purchased 
by  said  school  boards  in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of  this  act. 

There  are  now  three  comparatively  recent  different  chapters  re- 
lating to  the  adoption,  sale,  and  purchase  of  school  textbooks,  and 
consequently  before  any  district,  city,  or  county  makes  an  adoption, 
each  of  these  chapters  should  be  carefully  studied  and  the  various 
provisions  discussed  by  the  district  boards  and  boards  of  education. 
The  term  of  adoption  has  been  changed  from  three  to  five  years. 
The  above  chapter  also  fixes  the  maximum  percentage  of  profit  to 
dealers.  Chapter  460,  Laws  of  1915,  Sections  553m-100  to 
553m— 108  requires  that  textbook  publishers  shall  file  the  fixed 
prices  of  schoolbooks  in  the  office  of  the  state  superintendent.  These 
prices  are  published  in  pamphlet  form  and  distributed  annually  to 
school  officers.  See  pages  331—333  in  your  copy  of  the  school  code 
for  1915.  See  also  Sections  440  and  440a,  page  268  of  the  code  for 
1915.  These  sections  have  been  on  the  statute  books  for  many  years 
and  are  changed  only  as  to  length  of  term  books  are  to  be  used  after 
adoption — to  wit:  to  five  years  instead  of  three. 


Chapter  510.  20.26.  (1)  Annually,  on  July  first,  not  to  exceed 
fifty  thousand  dollars,  for  special  state  aid  to  partially  defray  the 
cost  of  erecting  and  equipping  a  school  building  In  each  consolidated 
rural  school  district  formed  by  the  uniting  of  the  schools  of  two  or 
more  school  districts  as  provided  by  law.  Of  this  there  Is  allotted 
to  each  such  consolidated  district  one-half  the  cost  of  erecting  and 
equipping  its  school  building;  but  not  exceeding  one  thousand  dol- 
lars for  a  school  of  one  department;  fifteen  hundred  dollars  for  a 
graded  school  of  two  departments;  two  thousand  dollars  for  a 
graded  school  of  three  departments;  three  thousand  dollars  for  a 
graded  school  of  four  or  more  departments  in  a  consolidated  dis- 
trict fromed  by  uniting  the  schools  of  three  or  more  districts;  or 
five  thousand  dollars  for  a  graded  and  high  school  in  a  consolidated 
district  formed  by  uniting  the  schools  of  all  the  districts  of  a  town- 
ship. Such  special  state  aid  shall  be  paid  only  upon  compliance 
with  sections  496 — 7  and  496 — 8  of  the  statutes  and  shall  be  certi- 
fied by  the  state  superintendent  to  the  secretary  of  state.  The  pro- 
visions of  this  subsection  shall  apply  to  each  school  district  in  which 


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there  are  two  or  more  school  buildings  located  two  or  more  miles 
apart  when  by  a  vote  of  the  electors  such  buildings  are  abandoned 
for  school  purposes  and  such  schools  are  united  in  one  central  state 
graded  school.  When  such  central  school  building  is  erected  and 
the  schools  of  such  district  are  united  and  maintained  in  such  cen- 
tral .school,  such  school  district  shall  be  deemed  a  consolidated  dis- 
trict and  each  school  abandoned  and  united  in  such  central  school 
shall  be  deemed  the  equivalent  of  a  school  district  participating  in 
such  consolidation. 

This  chapter  amends  those  sections  of  the  statutes  relating  to  the 
state  aid  to  consolidated  schools  by  providing  that  if  there  shall  be 
in  any  school  district  two  or  more  school  buildings  located  two  or 
more  miles  apart,  and  said  schools  are  abandoned  and  the  school 
interests  centralized  in  one  school,  such  action  is  equivalent  to  a 
consolidation  of  districts  and  entitles  said  districts  to  receive  a  cer- 
tain sum  as  designated  above  as  an  aid  in  the  erection  and  equip- 
ment of  the  centralized  building.  . 

Chapter  528.  Section  1.  Subsection  3  of  section  458b — 2  of  the 
statutes  is  amended  and  renumbered  to  read:  (Section  458b — 2).  4. 
The  state  superintendent,  upon  the  presentation  of  a  statement 
hereinbefore  mentioned  in  this  section,  and  satisfactory  evidence  of 
good  moral  character,  and  two  years'  successful  teaching  after  grad- 
uation in  the  public  schools  of  the  state  of  Wisconsin,  shall  issue 
certificates  as  follows:  To  any  person  who  shall  hold  a  university, 
normal  school  or  Stout  institute  diploma,  an  unlimited  state  certifi- 
cate; to  any  person  who  shall  hold  a  normal  school  elementary 
certificate,  a  limited  state  certificate,  qualifying  the  holder  to  teach 
in  a  public  school  for  a  period  not  to  exceed  six  years  from  the  date 
of  issuance  of  the  normal  school  certificate.  Neither  a  limited  state 
certificate,  nor  a  license  to  teach  based  upon  the  certificate  from 
the  elementary  course  of  a  normal  school,  shall  qualify  the  holder 
as  principal  of  a  free  high  school  having  four  years'  course  of 
study. 

(Section  458b — 2)  3.  The  president  of  the  Stout  institute  shall 
issue  to  the  graduates  of  the  regular  courses  in  manual  training 
and  domestic  science,  or  of  such  other  courses  as  may  be  legally 
authorized  and  duly  established  and  offered  in  such  institution,  a 
certified  statement  showing  the  name  of  the  graduate,  the  date  of 
graduation,  the  course  from  which  graduated.  This  certificate, 
when  presented  to  the  state  superintendent,  shall  entitle  the  holder 
to  receive  a  license  qualifying  him  to  teach  domestic  science  or 
manual  training,  or  other  special  subject  for  which  a  diploma  has 
been  granted,  in  any  public  school  in  the  state  of  Wisconsin  for 
one  year  from  date  of  issuance.  Upon  presentation  of  satisfactory 
evidence  of  successful  teaching  for  one  year  in  the  public  schools 
of  the  state,  such  license  may  be  renewed  for  one  year  by  the 
state  superintendent. 

This  chapter  is  of  large  interest  to  graduates  from  Wisconsin  nor- 
mal schools,  the  state  university,  and  Stout  Institute,  and  familiarity 


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and  compliance  with  its  provisions  can  avoid  misunderstanding,  de- 
lay, worry,  and  annoyance.  Boards  of  education,  superintendents, 
and  principals  should  call  the  attention  of  their  teachers  to  this 
provision  of  the  statuses  just  before  school  opens  in  the  fall  and 
some  weeks  before  it  closes  in  the  spring.  By  so  doing,  a  good  deal 
of  comfort  and  satisfaction  will  result  to  all  parties  interested, 
owing  to  the  fact  that  the  statutes  demand  and  the  courts  rule  that 
school  officers  can  contract  only  with  legally  qualified  teachers. 

Chapter  536.  25.01  Authorized  Investments  and  Loans.  (1) 
What  Funds.  The  moneys  belonging  to  the  common  school  fund, 
the  normal  school  fund,  the  university  fund  and  the  agricultural 
college  fund  specified  and  defined  respectively  in  section  20.24, 
subsection  (3)  of  section  20.36,  subsection  (1)  of  section  20.39  and 
subsection  (3)  of  section  20.39  shall  from  time  to  time  be  invested 
or  loaned  by  the  commissioners  of  the  public  lands  as  such  moneys 
accumulate  in  the  treasury,  and  said  commissioners  shall  keep  a 
separate  account  of  all  investments  and  loans  from  each  fund. 

(2)  Investments.     Any  of  said  funds  may  be  invested  in  the  pur- 
chase of  county  bonds  issued  under  the  authority  conferred  by  sec- 
tion 697 — 60,  or  in  the  purchase  of  bonds  issued  pursuant  to  law  by 
any  town,  village,  city  or  county  of  this  state.     All  bonds  so  pur- 
chased shall  be  deposited  with  the  state  treasurer. 

(3)  Loans.     Any  of  said  funds  may  be  loaned  to  school  districts 
to  be  used  in  erecting  school  buildings,  in  the  purchase  of  school- 
house  sites  or  school  playgrounds,  or  in  refunding  their  indebted- 
ness, and  for  no  other  purpose;   or  to  towns,  villages,  cities,  coun- 
ties and  boards  of  education,  duly  incorporated  as  such,  of  any  city 
within  the  state,  as   hereinafter  provided;    and   every  such   school 
district,  town,  village,  city,  county  and  incorporated  board  of  edu- 
cation  is  empowered  to  borrow  of  said  commissioners,   from   said 
funds  or   either   of   them,   such   sum   or   sums   of   money,    for   such 
time  and  upon  such  conditions  as  may  be  agreed  upon  between  said 
commissioners  and  the  borrower;   subject,  however,  to  the  limita- 
tions, restrictions  and  conditions  hereinafter  set  forth.   In  this  chap- 
ter any  such  school  district,  town,  village,  city,  county  or  incorpor- 
ated board  of  education,  or  all  of  them,  may  be  designated  by  the 
word   "municipality"   or  the   word   "municipalities". 

(4)  Preferences.     So   far   as   practicable    the    loans    sought    by 
school   districts  and  boards   of  education   shall   be  supplied   before 
any  other  loan  or  investment  authorized  by  this  section  is  made, 
and  such  applications  shall  be  acted  upon  in  the  order  of  time  in 
which  they  have  been  filed. 

25.02  Term,  Amount,  Interest  Rate.  (1)  Municipal  Loans 
other  than  to  School  Districts.  The  loans  provided  for  by  subsec- 
tion (3)  of  section  25.01,  other  than  those  to  school  districts,  may 
be  made  for  any  term  not  exceeding  twenty  years,  may  be  made 
payable  in  instalments,  and  be  in  such  amounts  as  shall  not,  in 
connection  with  all  other  indebtedness  of  the  municipality  apply- 
ing therefor,  exceed  five  per  centum  of  the  average  assessed  valua- 


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tion  of  the  taxable  property  therein  for  the  three  years  next  pre- 
ceding the  application  for  such  loan.  When  such  loan  is  made  to 
pay  off  existing  indebtedness  it  may  be  advanced  to  the  borrower 
in  instalments  as  fast  as  such  indebtedness  or  the  evidence  thereof 
is  cancelled. 

(2)  School  District  Loans.     Every  loan  to  a  school  district  may 
be  made  for  such  time,  not  exceeding  fifteen  years,  and  for  such 
amount  as  together   with  all   other   indebtedness   of   such   district, 
shall  not  exceed  five  per  centum  of  the  last  preceding  assessed  valu- 
ation of  the  property  in  such  district,  not  less  than  two-thirds  of 
which  valuation  shall  be  on  real  estate,  and  not  exceeding  in  any 
case  twenty-five  thousand  dollars,  as  may  be  agreed  upon;  the  prin- 
cipal shall  be  payable  in  approximately  equal  annual  instalments. 

(3)  Interest  Rates.     All  loans  shall  bear  and  draw  interest  at  a 
rate  not  less  than  four  per  centum   per  annum  payable   annually 
except  loans  to  school  districts  which  shall  bear  and  draw"  interest 
at  the  uniform  rate  of  four  per  centum  per  annum;   and  no  invest- 
ment shall  be  made  that  will  yield  less  than  four  per  centum  per 
annum  of  the  amount  invested. 

25.04  Date  when  Interest  and  Principal  become  due.     The  an- 
nual  interest   and   instalments  of   principal  of   all   loans   from   the 
trust  funds  shall  be  payable  into  the  state  treasury  with  other  state 
taxes. 

25.05  The  Application.      (1)      For  all  Municipalities.     No  loan 
shall  be   made   under  the   provisions   of  subsection    (3)    of   section 
25.01  unless  an  application  therefor  be  first  made  to  the  commis- 
sioners  as  required  by  this  section.      Such  application  shall  state 
the  amount  of  money   required,  the  purpose  to  which  it  is  to   be 
applied,   and  the  times   and  terms   of  repayment;    and   it   shall   be 
accompanied  by  satisfactory  proof  (a)  of  the  assessed  valuation  for 
the  preceding  three  years   of   all  the  taxable  property  within  the 
municipality   making  the  application;    (b)    of  all   the   existing   in- 
debtedness of  such  municipality;    and   (c)    of  the  approval   of   the 
application  as  required  by  this  section. 

(2)  For  Municipalities  other  than  School  Districts.  Every  such 
application  shall  be  approved  and  authorized  for  a  town,  by  the 
signatures  of  all  of  its  supervisors  acknowledged  as  conveyances 
of  land  are  acknowledged;  for  a  village,  by  a  vote  of  not  less  than 
three-fourths  of  its  trustees;  for  a  city,  by  a  vote  of  not  less  than 
two-thirds  of  the  members  of  its  common  council;  for  the  board  of 
education  of  any  city,  by  a  vote  of  not  less  than  two-thirds  of  all 
of  its  members  at  a  regular  or  special  meeting  thereof  and  also  by 
a  vote  of  not  less  than  two-thirds  of  all  the  members  of  the  com- 
mon council  of  such  city;  for  a  county,  by  a  vote  of  not  less  than 
two-thirds  of  all  the  members  of  its  board  of  supervisors  at  some 
regular  or  special  session  thereof.  Every  vote  so  required  shall  be 
by  ayes  and  noes  duly  recorded  and  taken  at  a  regular  meeting, 
except  as  is  otherwise  provided  herein. 


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(3)  For   School  Districts.      Every  such  application  shall   be   ap- 
proved and  authorized  for  a  school  district  by  a  vote  of  a  majority 
of  its  legal  voters  voting  on  such  question.     If  such  -vote  be  taken 
at  a  special  meeting  the  objects  thereof  shall  be  clearly  stated  in 
the  notice  of  the  meeting.     The  application  shall  state  the  facts  in 
detail  respecting  the  holding  of  the  meeting,  the  taking  and  the  re- 
sult of  the  vote  required,  and  shall  be  signed  by  each  member  of 
the  district  board,  and  verified  by  the  clerk.     The  statement  accom- 
panying the  application  shall  contain  a  correct  map  or  plat  of  the 
district  and,  when  the  district  is  a  joint  district,  it  shall  show  the 
assessed  valuation  in  its  several  parts  separately,  so  that  the  valu- 
ations of  so  much  thereof  as  lies  in  each  town  or  municipality  of 
which  it  is  a  part,  may  be  readily  shown. 

(4)  Popular  Vote.     When  Required.     Whenever  any  municipal- 
ity is  not  empowered  by  law  to  incur  indebtedness  for  a  particular 
purpose   without  first   submitting  the   question  to   its  electors,   the 
application  for  a  loan  for  that  purpose  must  be  approved  and  au- 
thorized by   a  majority  vote  of  such  electors  at  a  special  election 
called,  noticed  and  held  in  the  manner  provided  for  other  special 
elections.     The  notice  of  such  election  shall  state  the  amount  of  the 
proposed  loan  and  the  purpose  for  which  it  will  be  used;  but  this 
subsection  shall  not  apply  to  loans  made  by   boards  of  education 
applying  as  provided  in  subsection  (2). 

(5)  Irrepealable  Tax   Levy.      Such   application   shall   be   accom- 
panied also  by  a  certified  copy  under  the  hand  of  the  proper  clerk  of 
a  recorded  resolution  adopted  by  the  municipality  applying  for  or 
approving  the   loan,  levying  upon  all  the  taxable  property  of  the 
municipality   a   direct   annual  tax  for   the   purpose   of   paying   and 
sufficient  to  pay  the  interest  on  such  proposed  loan  as  it  falls  due, 
and  also  to  pay  and  discharge  the  principal  thereof  within  twenty 
years  from  the  making  of  such  loan.     Such  a  levy  shall  become  void 
and  of  no  effect   if  the  commissioners   decline  to  make  the  loan; 
otherwise  it  shall  remain  valid  and  irrepealable  until  the  loan  and 
all  interest  thereon  shall  be  fully  paid. 

(6)  Proceedings   to    be    Recorded    and    Become   Conclusive    Evi- 
dence.    The  aforesaid  application,  statement  and  all  accompanying 
exhibits  and  documents  shall  be  recorded  in  the  office  of  said  com- 
missioners and  thereupon  be  filed  in  the  office  of  the  secretary  of 
state,  and    shall,   together   with   the   record   thereof,    be  conclusive 
evidence  of  the  facts  therein  stated. 

25.06  Certificates  of  Indebtedness.  If  the  application  shall  be 
approved  by  said  commissioners  they  shall  forthwith  cause  certifi- 
cates of  indebtedness  to  be  prepared  in  proper  form  and  trans- 
mitted to  the  municipality  submitting  the  same.  Every  such  cer- 
tificate shall  be  executed  and  signed  for  a  school  district  by  its  di- 
rector, for  a  town  by  its  chairman,  for  a  village  by  its  president, 
for  a  city  by  its  mayor,  for  a  board  of  education  by  its  president, 
and  for  a  county  by  the  chairman  of  its  board,  shall  be  counter- 


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signed  by  the  clerk  of  the  municipality  executing  the  same,  returned 
to  the  commissioners,  and  deposited  with  the  secretary  of  state, 
who  shall  thereupon  draw  his  warrant  upon  the  .state  treasurer  for 
the  amount  of  such  loan,  payable  to  the  treasurer  of  the  munici- 
pality making  the  loan  or  as  he  may  direct;  and  said  certificate  of 
indebtedness  shall  then  be  conclusive  evidence  of  the  validity  of 
such  indebtedness  and  that  all  the  requirements  of  law  concerning 
the  application  for  the  making  and  acceptance  of  such  loan  have 
been  complied  with. 

25.07  Alterations  of  Boundaries,  Tax  a  Special  Charge.     All  the 
taxable  property  in  any  municipality  which  has  obtained  or  shall 
obtain  any  loan  from  the  state  or  from  any  of  its  trust  funds  shall 
stand  charged  for  the  payment  of  the  principal  and  interest  thereof, 
and  alterations  of  the  boundaries  of  such  municipality  shall  not  be 
made  until  such  loan  shall  be  fully  paid  without  the  consent  of  the 
commissioners.     The  annual  tax  levied  as  provided  by   subsection 
(5)  of  section  25.05  shall  be  a  special  charge  to  be  paid  next  after 
the  state  tax  out  of  any  moneys  collected  as  taxes  within  said  mu- 
nicipality. 

25.08  'Collection  from  Municipalities  other  than  School  Districts. 
(1)      Statement  of  Amount.     The  secretary   of  state  shall  furnish 
annually  to   the   county   clerk   of   each   county   in  which   any   such 
special  charge  for  principal  or  interest  is  due  or  will  become  due 
in  the  next  succeeding  twelve  months,  a  statement  showing  in  de- 
tail the  amounts  due  or  to  become  due  as  aforesaid  from  the  county 
and  from  any  town,  village  or  city  therein.     Such  .statement  shall 
accompany  the  statement  made  and  certified  under  section  1070. 

25.10  Use  of  Funds.    No  money  obtained  by  any  school  district, 
school  board,  town,  village,  city  or  county  by  such  loan  shall  be 
applied  to  or  paid  out  for  any  purpose  except  that  specified  in  the 
application  therefor  without  the  consent  of  said  commissioners. 

Misuse  of  Loans  from  the  Trust  Funds.  Section  4550m.  Any 
supervisor,  chairman  of  any  town  or  county  board,  mayor  of  any 
city,  president  of  any  village  or  treasurer  of  any  town,  county,  city 
or  village  who  shall  make  or  sign  any  order  or  warrant,  or  pay  out 
or  suffer  or  cause  to  be  appropriated  or  paid  out  any  moneys  de- 
rived by  loans  from  the  state  trust  funds  contrary  to  the  provisions 
of  section  25.10,  shall  be  punished  by  confinement  at  hard  labor  in 
the  state  prison  for  a  term  not  exceeding  five  years  or  by  fine  not 
exceeding  one  thousand  dollars  or  by  both  such  fine  and  imprison- 
ment. 

25.11  Extension  of  Loan.     All  loans  made  or  which  may  be  made 
from   any   of  such  funds  to  any  municipality  may  be  extended  for 
such  time  and  upon  such  terms  as  may  be  agreed  upon  by  and  be- 
tween  the  commissioners   and   such    borrower;    provided,    however, 
that  no  loan  shall  be  extenedd  upon  which  there  is  any  default  in 
the  payment  pf  interest  at  the  time  of  making  application  therefor, 
nor  to  any  period  beyond  twenty  years  from  its  inception,  nor  at 
any  rate  of  interest  less  than  the  minimum  established  by  law. 


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25.13  Interest,  How  Accounted  For.  Every  sum  of  money  col- 
lected as  interest  upon  any  loan  from  either  of  the  trust  funds  speci- 
fied in  section  25.01  shall  be  paid  into  the  state  treasury  and  be 
credited  to  the  income  of  the  fund  from  which  the  loan  was  made. 

This  chapter  is  a  consolidation  of  all  the  different  statutes  relat- 
ing to  loans  from  the  trust  funds.  School  officers  should  not  permit 
themselves  or  the  electors  to  become  confused  as  to  the  different 
sections  of  this  chapter  but  should  confine  their  study  particularly 
to  the  sections  relating  to  loans  to  school  districts  and  to  the  in- 
struction given  in  the  school  code  for  1915  under  the  heading,  "Be 
sure  you're  right,  then  go  ahead."  See  page  391,  Code  of  1915. 

Chapter  542.  Section  926 — 145.  All  cities  of  the  third  and 
fourth  class,  operating  under  a  special  or  a  general  charter,  and  all 
school  districts  operating  under  the  general  law  or  a  special  char- 
ter, and  including  within  their  limits  all  or  any  part  of  any  such 
cities,  are  hereby  authorized  to  levy  annually  a  special  tax  for 
school  purposes  not  exceeding  five  mills  on  the  dollar  of  the  as- 
sessed valuation  of  all  the  real  and  personal  property  in  said  city 
or  school  districts  for  that  year,  in  addition  to  the  total  tax  now 
authorized  to  be  levied  by  such  cities  or  school  districts,  and  such 
tax  may  be  levied  and  collected  in  the  same  way  as  other  school 
taxes  are  levied  and  collected  in  such  cities  and  school  districts. 

The  rate  was  formerly  three  and  one-half  mills  on  the  dollar. 

Chapter  544.  Section  392q.  The  course  of  instruction  for  stu- 
dents who  have  enrolled  prior  to  July  1,  1917,  shall  be  two  years 
in  length  and  for  students  who  enroll  after  July  1,  1917,  shall  be 
three  years  in  length  and  shall  embrace  geology,  mineralogy,  chem- 
istry, assaying,  mining  and  mining  surveying  and  such  other 
branches  of  the  practical  and  theoretical  knowledge  as  will,  in  the 
opinion  of  the  board,  conduce  to  the  end  of  enabling  students  of 
said  school  to  obtain  a  knowledge  of  the  science,  art  and  practice 
of  mining  and  the  application  of  machinery  thereto.  The  dean  of 
the  college  of  engineering  of  the  University  of  Wisconsin  shall  be 
consulted  concerning  the  course  of  study,  and  the  same  and  all 
modifications  thereof  shall  be  approved  by  him.  No  student  who 
shall  have  been  a  resident  of  the  state  for  one  year  next  preceding 
his  admission  shall  be  required  to  pay  fees  or  other  charges  for 
tuition  or  other  purposes  in  said  school,  except  for  the  cost  price 
of  materials  actually  consumed  by  such  student  in  pursuit  of  any 
studies.  The  board  may  prescribe  rates  for  tuition  for  any  student 
who  shall  not  have  been  a  resident  as  aforesaid,  which  shall  not  be 
less  than  fifty  nor  more  than  two  hundred  dollars  per  year. 

Chapter  546.  25.09  Collections  from  School  Districts.  (1)  Dis- 
tricts Not  Joint.  The  collection  of  principal  and  interest  of  loa*ns 
made  from  the  trust  funds  to  school  districts  other  than  joint  dis- 


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tricts  shall  be  collected  in  the  manner  provided  by  section  25.08  for 
.such  collections  from  other  municipalities. 

(2)  Joint  Districts,  (a)  Whenever  a  joint  school  district  shall 
make  any  such  loan  the  clerk  of  such  district  shall  notify  in  writ- 
ing the  clerks  of  the  several  towns  or  villages  of  which  such  dis- 
trict is  composed  of  such  loan  and  the  terms  thereof;  and  there- 
after the  clerk  of  each  such  town  or  village  shall,  on  or  before  the 
second  Monday  of  September  in  each  year,  until  such  loan  shall  be 
paid,  transmit  to  the  district  clerk  a  statement  certified  by  him  of 
the  valuation  of  all  taxable  property  in  that  part  of  such  district 
which  lies  in  his  town  or  village  according  to  the  last  assessment 
roll,  or,  if  the  same  shall  have  been  equalized  as  provided  in  section 
471,  such  equalized  valuation  thereof.  The  clerk  of  such  joint 
school  district  shall  forthwith  certify  to  the  county  clerk  every  such 
valuation  so  certified  to  him. 

(b)  When  such  joint  school  district  is  composed  of  territory  lo- 
cated in  two  or  more  counties  the  county   clerk  shall  transmit  to 
the  secretary  of  state  on  or  before  the  twentieth  of  September  in 
every  year  a  copy  of  the  statements  so  certified  to  him  by  the  dis- 
trict clerk.     The  secretary  of  state  shall  in  every  year  furnish  to 
the  county  clerk  of  each  county  in  which  lies  any  joint  school  dis- 
trict or  part  of  a  joint  school  district  from  which  any  such  payment 
is  to  become  due  the  total  amount  to  be  levied  in  his  county  upon 
such  joint  school  district  at  the  same  time  that  he  certifies  to  that 
officer  the  state  tax. 

(c)  The  county  clerk  shall  at  the  proper  time  after  receiving 
such  certificate  from  the  secretary  of  state  apportion  the  amount 
certified  for  collection  to  the  proper  towns  and  villages  in  accord- 
ance with  the  valuations  certified  to  him  by  the  district  clerk;   but 
it  shall  be  carried  out  in  a  separate  column,  and  the  district  from 
which  it  is  due  shall  be  specified.     The  town,  clerk  shall  charge  and 
carry  out  such  amount  in  his  tax  roll  to  the  district  or  part  of  dis- 
trict to  which  it  belongs  in  a  separate  column,  and  the  tax  shall  be 
collected  and  paid  with  and  in  the  same  manner  as  the  state  tax. 

This  chapter  is  of  special  importance  to  the  clerks  of  Joint  School 
Districts  that  are  indebted  to  the  state.  It  imposes  a  new  duty 
upon  the  district  clerk  and  demands  his  attention.  There  are  in 
round  numbers  2,000  districts  in  this  state  that  are  called  Joint 
because  they  comprise  territory  lying  in  two  or  more  towns,  or  in  a 
town  or  towns  and  a  village  or  in  a  town  or  towns  and  a  city. 

Chapter  563.  Section  490 — 1.  (1)  With  the  advice  and  con- 
sent of  the  state  superintendent  any  city  or  school  district  or  two 
or  more  school  districts  may  establish  one  or  more  free  high  schools 
to  be  known  as  district  free  high  schools  in  the  manner  and  with 
the  privileges  herein  provided. 

(2)  The  question  of  establishing  such  schools  in  a  single  dis- 
trict shall  be  submitted  by  the  school  district  board  to  the  legally 


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qualified  voters  at  any  annual  or  special  meeting  or  election  upon 
written  resolution  therefor  proposed  for  adoption. 

(3)  At   least   six   day's   notice    of  such  proposal   embodying  the 
resolution   shall   be   given   by  the   district  clerk  by  posting  copies 
thereof  in  four  or  more  public  places  in  such  school  district,  or  by 
publishing  such  notice  in  any  newspaper  published  in  said  district 
once  each  week  for  two  successive  weeks  immediately  prior  to  the 
time  set  for  holding  such  meeting. 

(4)  The  vote  on  such  proposal  shall  be  taken  by  ballot.   The  bal- 
lots shall  be  written  or  printed  "for  high  school"  and  "against  high 
school."     If  the  resolution  be  adopted  the  clerk  of  the  election  shall 
submit  notice  of  such  action  to  the  state  superintendent  for  his  ap- 
proval.    If  such  action  meets  the  approval  of  the  state  superintend- 
ent he  shall  issue  a  certificate  of  establishment  of  a  district  free 
high  school  in  said  district. 

Section  490 — 2.  Whenever  a  petition,  in  writing,  praying  for  the 
submission  of  the  question  of  establishing  a  free  high  school  in  a 
single  district  and  signed  by  at  least  one-tentli  of  the  qualified 
voters  residing  in  said  district  shall  be  filed  with  the  school  district 
board,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  district  clerk  to  submit  a  resolu- 
tion for  that  purpose  to  the  voters  of  such  school  district,  as  pro- 
vided in  section  490 — 1. 

Section  490 — 3.  In  all  school  districts -which  now  constitute  dis- 
trict free  high  school  districts  or  which  shall  hereafter  become  such 
high  school  districts,  the  district  board  shall  be  the  free  high  school 
board  and  the  officers  shall  be  the  officers  of  the  free  high  school 
district. 

Section  490 — 4.  (1)  In  case  two  or  more  school  districts  pro- 
pose to  establish,  jointly,  a  district  free  high  school,  action  shall 
be  taken  by  each  district  as  in  the  case  of  the  establishment  of  such 
school  by  a  single  district. 

(2)  Within  six  days  after  the  election  the  school  boards  of  the 
districts  shall  meet  in  joint  session   and   canvass  the  returns  and 
certify  the  results  to  the  state  superintendent  and  to  the  officers 
elected.      If  the  resolution  be   adopted   by  each   district  and   such 
action  meets  the  approval  of  the  state  superintendent  he  shall  issue 
a  certificate  of  establishment  of  a  joint  free  high  school  in  such 
districts. 

(3)  All  procedure  subsequent  to  the  issuance  of  the  certificate  of 
establishment  of  such  district  free  high  school  shall  be  governed  by 
the    statutes    relating    to    the    organization   and    administration    of 
union  free  high  schools. 

(4)  The  officers  of  a  joint  free  high  school  district  and  their  elec- 
tion and  term  of  office  shall  be  as  directed  in  the  case  of  a  union 
free  high  school  composed  of  an  incorporated  village  and  outside 
territory. 

(5)  Such  joint  district  free  high  school  shall  be  entitled  to  share 
in  state  aid  as  in  the  case  of  district  free  high  schools. 


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Section  490 — 5.  (1)  In  any  city  having  a  system  of  school  or- 
ganization according  to  the  provisions  of  a  general  or  special  char- 
ter, a  resolution  proposing  the  establishment  of  a  district  free  high 
school  may  be  acted  upon  by  the  board  of  education.  If  such  reso- 
lution be  adopted  the  secretary  of  the  board  shall  notify  the  state 
superintendent  of  such  action.  If  such  action  meets  the  approval 
of  the  state  superintendent  he  shall  issue  a  certificate  of  establish- 
ment of  a  district  free  high  school  in  such  city. 

(2)  In  all  cities  having  a  system  of  school  organization  accord- 
ing to  the  provisions  of  a  general  or  special  charter  which  now 
maintain  one  or  more  district  free  high  schools,  or  which  shall  here- 
after establish  one  or  more  district  free  high  schools,  the  board  of 
education  shall  be  the  high  school  board  and  the  city  treasurer  shall 
be  ex  officio  the  treasurer  of  the  high  school  district,  unless  the  city 
charter  provides  otherwise. 

Section  490 — 6.  (1)  Any  school  district  containing  within  its 
boundaries  a  city  in  which  a  high  school  is  maintained  and  which 
expends  annually  in  the  maintenance  of  its  schools,  a  sum  exceed- 
ing four  thousand  dollars,  may,  upon  determining  so  to  do  by  the 
vote  of  the  electors  present  at  any  annual  school  meeting,  have  a 
district  board,  comprising  seven  members,  which  shall  be  known 
as  a  school  board  of  the  city  comprising  in  whole  or  in  part  such 
district,  three  of  whom  shall  be  respectively  the  director,  treasurer 
and  clerk,  who  shall  each  discharge  the  separate  duties  now  im- 
posed upon  such  officers  by  law,  and  shall  be  elected  and  hold  office 
for  the  term  now  provided  by  law,  and  no  two  of  whom  shall  be 
residents  of  the  same  ward  in  such  city  until  each  ward  therein 
shall  have  at  least  one  member  on  such  board.  Where  such  school 
district  and  city  are  identical  in  territory  the  members  of  the  dis- 
trict board  shall  be  chosen  one  from  each  ward  of  such  city  in  the 
order  in  which  the  wards  are  numbered  until  the  full  number  is 
chosen;  and  in  case  such  city  has  fewer  than  seven  wards  an  addi- 
tional member  or  members  shall  be  chosen  from  the  district  at 
large. 

(2)  The  number  of  members  of   any  school  board  shall  not   be 
increased  as  provided  in  subsection   (1)   unless  a  notice  in  writing 
of  the    proposal   for   such    increase,   signed    by    at  least   twenty-five 
electors  of  the  school  district,  shall  be  filed  with  the  clerk  of  said 
district  at  least  ten  days  prior  to  the  annual  meeting;  and  the  clerk 
shall  include  in  the  notice  of  such  meeting  the  substance  of  such 
proposal. 

(3)  Removal  by  a   member  of  such  board  from  the  ward  from 
which  he  was  chosen  shall  create  a  vacancy. 

(4)  All  directors,  clerks  and  treasurers  in  office  prior  to  the  es- 
tablishment of  said  board  shall  continue  in  their  respective  offices 
during  the  full  term  for  which  they  were  elected.     The  remaining 
four  members  of  said  district  board  shall  be  elected  as  school  dis- 
trict officers  are  elected,  at  the  annual  school  meeting  at  which  such 
high  school  district  is  established;  two  thereof  to  be  elected  for  the 


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period  of  one  year  and  the  remaining  two  for  the  period  of  two 
years  and  until  their  successors  have  been  elected  or  appointed.  At 
every  succeeding  school  meeting  in  such  district  there  shall  be 
elected,  in  addition  to  a  director,  clerk  or  treasurer,  as  the  case  may 
be,  two  of  such  additional  members  of  such  board,  who  shall  hold 
their  office  for  two  years  and  until  their  successors  are  elected  or 
appointed. 

(5)  Any  vacancies  in  said  board  shall  be  filled  as  in  the  case  of 
vacancies  in  district  boards,  the  members  filling  such  vacancies  to 
hold  until  the  next  annual  district  meeting. 

(6)  Such   school   boards   shall  exercise  all   the   powers  and   dis- 
charge all  the  duties  imposed  upon  the  district  board  existing  prior 
to  the  establishment  of  such  board.     The  regular  meetings  of  said 
board  shall  be  held,  and  special  metings  thereof  may  be  called  upon 
request  of  any  three  members  of  such  board  to  the  clerk,  who  shall 
thereupon,   at  least  twenty-four  hours  before   such  special  meeting 
is  held,   give  written   notice  thereof   to  the  remaining  members  of 
the  board. 

Section  490 — 7.  With  the  advice  and  consent  of  the  state  super- 
intendent a  free  high  school,  to  be  known  as  a  union  free  high 
school,  may  be  established  and  maintained  in  any  town,  or  in  any 
tract  of  contiguous  territory  having  an  erea  of  not  less  than  thirty- 
six  nor  more  than  seventy-two  square  miles  and  bounded  by  town, 
school  district,  section  or  half  section  lines  or  by  lines  bounding  in 
part  an  existing  free  high  school  district,  or  in  cases  where  impas- 
sable streams,  lakes  or  swamps  render  it  impracticable  to  follow 
such  boundary  lines,  such  natural  boundaries  may  be  substituted. 

Section  490 — 8.  (1)  In  case  the  tract  of  territory  to  be  em- 
braced within  such  district  is  entirely  included  in  one  town  and  does 
not  include  within  its  boundaries  an  incorporated  village,  the  town 
board  of  that  town  shall  submit  the  question  of  establishing  such 
union  free  high  school  to  the  voters  of  such  tract,  whenever  a  notice 
is  filed  with  the  town  chairman  praying  for  the  submission  of  such 
question.  Such  petition  shall  describe  the  boundaries  of  the  pro- 
posed district  and  shall  be  signed  by  at  least  one-tenth  of  the  quali- 
fied voters  resident  therein.  The  chairman  shall,  within  ten  days 
after  the  receipt  of  the  petition,  notify  the  town  clerk,  and  the 
clerk  shall  at  once  cause  ten  days'  notice  of  such  election  to  be 
given  by  posting  six  copies  thereof  in  at  least  six  different  public 
places  in  such  tracts,  or  by  publishing  such  notice  in  any  newspaper 
published  therein  once  each  week  for  two  successive  weeks  immedi- 
ately prior  to  the  time  set  for  holding  the  election.  The  election 
shall  be  conducted  and  the  vote  canvassed  as  in  the  case  of  town 
meetings. 

(2)  In  case  the  said  tract  lies  in  two  or  more  towns  and  con- 
tains no  incorporated  village  such  petition  may  be  presented  to  the 
chairman  of  any  one  of  the  town  boards  in  such  towns,  and 
said  chairman  shall,  within  five  days  after  the  receipt  of  said 
petition,  notify  the  other  town  chairman  or  chairmen,  as  the  case 


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may  be,  of  the  receipt  of  such  petition  and  shall  set  a  date  for  a 
meeting  of  all  the  chairmen  of  the  towns  involved  for  the  purpose 
of  fixing  a  time  and -place  for  holding  such  union  free  high  school 
election.  Thereupon,  the  said  chairmen  shall  meet  on  said  day  and 
fix  the  time  and  place  for  holding  such  election;  but  if  any  chair- 
man is  unable  to  attend  he  shall  delegate  some  other  supervisor 
of  his  board  to  act  in  his  place.  The  election  shall  be  noticed  and 
conducted  for  the  entire  tract  of  territory  which  is  to  be  proposed 
to  be  included  in  the  union  free  high  school  district;  and  shall  be 
held  by  the  town  board  of  the  town  in  which  the  election  is  held 
in  the  manner  provided  in  subsection  (1). 

(3)  In  case  the  tract  proposed  for  the  union   free  high  school 
district  contains  an  incorporated  village,  the  petition  may  be  pre- 
sented to  any  town  chairman,  as  provided  in  subsection  (2),  or  to 
the  president  of  the  village.     Thereupon,  the  official  to  whom  the 
petition  is   presented   shall   notify .  each   chairman   and   the  village 
president  of  the  receipt  of  such  petition  and  shall  set  a  day  for  a 
meeting  of  said  officers  for  the  purpose  of  fixing  the  date  for  hold- 
ing the  union  free  high  school  election.    The  election  for  the  village 
shall  be  held  in  the  village  on  the  same  day  that  the  election  for 
the  territory  lying  outside  is  held.     The  election  for  the  territory 
lying  outside  the  village  may  be  held  in  the  village  or  at  any  other 
convenient  place  agreed  upon  which  shall  be  designated  in  the  notice 
of  election.     The  election  for  the  village  shall  be  noticed  and  con- 
ducted and  the  votes  canvassed  in  the  manner  provided  for  village 
elections;   and  the  election  for  the  territory  lying  outside  the  vil- 
lage shall  be  noticed  and  conducted  and  the  votes  canvassed  in  the 
manner  provided  for  town  elections.     If  the  outlying  territory  com- 
prises parts  of  two  or  more  towns  the  supervisors  at  their  first  meet- 
ing shall  designate  the  town  in  which  such  election  shall  be  held 
and  the  officers  of  said  town  shall  notice,  control  and  direct  such 
election. 

(4)  In  all  cases  the  vote  shall  be  by  ballot,  and  the  ballots  shall 
be  written  or  printed   "for   union   free  high  school"  and   "against 
union  free  high  school".   The  proposal  shall  not  be  deemed  adopted 
unless  a  majority  of  the  electors  residing  in  the  territory  outside 
of  the  village  and  a  majority  of  the  electors  residing  in  the  village 
shall  vote  for  the  union  free  high  school. 

(5)  The  result  of  the  election  shall  be  certified  at  once  by  the 
election  officers  to  the  clerk  of  each  town  and  village  concerned; 
and  if  the  proposal  be  adopted  the  result  shall  also  be  certified  to 
the  state  superintendent  by  the  respective  clerks  within  six  days 
after  the  election.     If  such  action  meets  the  approval  of  the  state 
superintendent  he   shall   issue   a   certificate   of  establishment   of   a 
union  free  high  school  in  said  tract  of  territory. 

Section  490 — 9.  If  an  existing  free  high  school  district  is  in- 
cluded in  the  tract  proposed  for  a  union  free  high  school  district 
the  establishment  of  the  union  free  high  school  district,  as  pro- 
vided in  section  490 — 8  and  of  a  union  free  high  school  as  herein 


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provided,  shall  annul  the  organization  of  any  such  existing  free  high 
school  district.  • 

Section  490 — 10.  (1)  The  officers  of  a  union  free  high  school 
district  shall  be  a  director,  a  treasurer  and  a  clerk  who  shall  have 
the  same  authority  and  be  charged  with  the  same  duties  and  liabil- 
ities respectively  as  the  officers  of  other  free  high  school  districts. 
The  term  of  each  shall  be  three  years,  beginning  with  the  annual 
union  free  high  school  district  meeting  to  be  held  the  third  Mon- 
day in  March,  and  each  officer  shall  continue  in  office  until  his  suc- 
cessor shall  have  been  chosen;  provided,  that  at  the  same  election 
at  which  the  proposal  of  establishing  the  district  is  submitted  the 
clerk  shall  be  chosen  for  one  year;  the  treasurer  for  two  years  and 
the  director  for  three  years,  but  a  separate  ballot  box  shall  be  pro- 
vided for  the  election  of  such  officers. 

(2)  All  elections  shall  be  by  ballot  and  a  plurality  of  the  votes 
cast  shall  elect.     In  case  an  incorporated  village  is  included  in  the 
proposed   district  the  officers  of  election  for   the   outside  territory 
shall  meet  at  once  after  the  polls  are  closed,  in  the  office  of  the  vil- 
lage clerk  and  all  votes  for  the  outside  territory  and  the  village 
shall  be  counted  as  a  joint  vote. 

( 3 )  Any  person  present  at  a  meeting  at  v.  hich  he  shall  be  elected 
as  an  officer  shall  be  deemed  to  be  notified  thereof.     Any  person 
elected  and  not  present  shall  be  notified  of  his  election  by  the  clerk 
of  said  election  within  five  days  thereafter.     Unless  the  person  so 
elected  and  notified  shall,  within  ten  days  after  his  election,  file  with 
the  clerk  a  written  refusal  to  accept  the  office  he  shall  be  deemed 
to  have  accepted  the  same. 

(4)  The  time  until  the  first  annual  meeting  shall  be  counted  as 
the  first  year  in  determining  the  term  of  office.     Thereafter  officers 
shall  be  elected  annually  in  place  of  those  whose  terms  expire  at 
the  annual  meeting  of  such  union  free  high  school  district. 

(5)  Any  vacancy  in  the  district  board  may  be  filled  by  the  board 
within  ten  days  after  the  vacancy  occurs,  and  if  not  so  filled,  the 
town  or  village  clerk  of  the  town  or  village  in  which  the  union  free 
high   schoolhouse   is    situated    shall   fill   such   vacancy  by   appoint- 
ment.    Any  person,  upon  being  notified  of  his  appointment,  shall 
be  deemed  to  accept  the  same  unless  within  five  days  thereafter  he 
shall  file  with  the  clerk  or  director  a  written  refusal  to  serve  and 
shall   continue  in  office   until   the  next  annual   election,  when  the 
electors  shall  fill  such  vacancy  for  the  unexpired  term. 

Section  490 — 11.  (1)  The  annual  union  free  high  school  dis- 
trict meeting  for  the  election  of  officers  and  the  transaction  of  other 
business  shall  be  held  on  the  third  Monday  in  March  unless  that  be 
a  legal  holiday  in  which  case  it  shall  be  held  the  next  day. 

(2)  The  election  of  district  officers  shall  be  held  in  some  conveni- 
ent room  in  the  union  free  high  school  building,  if  there  be  such 
building,  and  if  not,  then  in  some  other  convenient  room  deter- 
mined upon  by  the  board  and  specified  in  the  notice.  If  the  notice 


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does  not  so  specify  the  election  shall  be  held  in  the   building  in 
which  the  last  annual  meeting  was  held. 

(3)  The  election  of  officers  shall  be  by  ballot  and  a  suitable  bal- 
lot box  shall  be  provided.     The  polls  shall  be  opened  at  one  o'clock 
in  the  afternoon  of  the  day  fixed  by  law  for  holding  annual  union 
free   high    school    district    meetings,    and    shall    be   closed    at    seven 
o'clock  of  the  same  day.    The  time  of  opening  and  closing  the  polls, 
as  well  as  the  place  of  holding  the  election,  shall  be  specified  in  the 
notice  of  such  election  or  meeting,  but  the  failure  so  to  do  shall  not 
vitiate  any  such  election. 

(4)  Immediately   after   the   polls    are    closed    and    the    ballots 
counted  the  electors  shall  organize  for  the  purpose  of  conducting 
the  regular  and  usual  business  other  than  the  election  of  officers, 
necessary   for   carrying   on   and    maintaining   the   union   free   high 
school.     As  soon  as  the  meeting  is  regularly  organized  the  result 
of  the  election  of  officers  shall  be  declared. 

(5)  The  officers  to  conduct  the  election  shall  consist  of  the  union 
free  high  school  district  clerk  and  two  other  persons  selected  by  the 
district  board.     If  an  incorporated  village  is  comprised  in  the  dis- 
trict one  officer  shall  be  selected  from  the  village  and  one  from  the 
territory  lying  outside  of  the  village  and  included  within  the  union 
free  high  school  district.   The  inspectors  and  clerks  of  election  shall 
make  and  keep  a  list  of  all  electors,  male  and  female,  voting  at  the 
election. 

(6)  The  compensation  to  be  paid  to  the  inspectors  and  clerks  of 
any  annual  or  special  meeting  shall  be  fixed  by  the  district  board 
but  shall  not  exceed  two  dollars  for  each  inspector;   and  shall  be 
paid  from  the  district  treasury. 

Section  490 — 12.  The  district  clerk  shall  give  at  least  six  days' 
previous  notice  of  the  annual  meetings  by  posting  notice  thereof  in 
six  or  more  public  places  in  the  district,  one  of  which  shall  be  fixed 
to  the  outer  door  of  the  union  free  high  school  building  if  there 
be  one  in  the  district;  and  he  shall  give  like  notice  for  any  ad- 
journed meeting  if  the  adjournment  be  for  more  than  one  month. 
The  failure  to  give  due  notice  of  annual  meetings  shall  not  affect 
the  validity  of  the  meeting,  unless  it  shall  appear  that  such  failure 
was  wilful  or  fraudulent. 

Section  490 — 13.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  union  free  high  school 
district  board  to  meet  on  the  Saturday  immediately  preceding  the  an- 
nual meeting,  carefully  examine  the  accounts  of  the  treasurer  and 
make  up  a  full  itemized  report  showing  all  receipts  and  expenditures 
since  the  last  annual  meeting,  the  amount  in  the  hands  of  the  treas- 
urer or  the  amount  of  the  deficit,  if  any,  for  which  the  district  is 
liable,  the  amount  necessary  to  be  raised  by  taxes  for  the  support 
of  the  school  for  the  ensuing  year,  and  the  amount  required  to  pay 
the  interest  or  principal  of  any  debt  due  or  to  become  due  during 
the  year.  Such  report  shall  be  submitted  in  writing  at  the  annual 
meeting  and  recorded  by  the  clerk  at  length  with  the  action  thereon 
in  the  proceedings  of  the  meeting. 


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Section  490 — 14.  Special  meetings  shall  be  called  by  the  clerk, 
or  in  his  absence  by  the  director  or  treasurer,  on  the  written  re- 
quest of  twenty  voters  of  the  district.  Notices  specifying  particu- 
larly the  business  to  be  transacted  shall  be  posted  in  the  manner 
prescribed  for  calling  the  annual  meeting.  In  addition  to  such  post- 
ing the  notice  shall  be  published  once  each  week  for  two  successive 
weeks  immediately  prior  to  the  time  set  for  holding  such  meeting, 
in  any  newspaper  published  in  the  union  free  high  school  district. 
If  no  newspaper  is  published  in  the  high  school  district  the  publica- 
tion may  be  in  one  newspaper  published  at  the  county  seat  of  the 
county  containing  the  high  school  district,  or  if  the  district  lies 
partially  within  two  or  more  counties  then  in  one  newspaper  at  the 
county  seat  of  each  county  containing  part  of  such  district.  The 
electors,  when  lawfully  assembled  at  a  special  meeting,  shall  have 
the  power  to  transact  the  same  business  as  at  an  annual  meeting, 
except  the  election  of  officers;  but  no  more  than  one  such  special 
meeting  to  consider  the  same  subject  shall  be  held  in  the  district 
in  the  same  school  year. 

Section  490 — 15.  The  incorporation  of  a  part  of  the  territory  of 
a  union  free  high  school  district  organized  under  the  provisions  of 
this  act  as  a  village  or  city  shall  not  affect  the  organization  of  such 
union  free  high  school  district. 

Section  490 — 16.  The  electors  of  any  union  free  high  school  dis- 
trict and  the  electors  of  any  common  school  district  included  within 
the  union  free  high  school  district  are  empowered  to  authorize  and 
direct  their  respective  school  boards  or  boards  of  education  to  en- 
ter into  an  agreement  for  the  erection  and  maintenance,  jointly,  of 
a  school  building  for  housing  the  high  school  and  the  common 
school  or  schools. 

Section  490 — 17.  (1)  The  procedure  for  the  alteration  of  the 
boundaries  of  a  union  free  high  school  district  shall  be  as  follows: 
a  petition  in  writing,  signed  by  at  least  one-tenth  of  the  voters  of 
the  union  free  high  school  district,  desiring  and  asking  for  said  al- 
teration, shall  be  presented  to  the  chairman  of  the  town,  president 
of  the  village,  or  mayor  of  the  city  in  which  the  union  high  school 
building  is  situated.  The  officer  to  whom  the  petition  is  presented 
shall  fix  a  time  for  a  meeting  of  the  town  board  or  boards,  or  of  the 
town  board  or  boards  and  the  village  trustees  or  city  council,  as  the 
case  may  be,  which  time  shall  not  be  less  than  ten  nor  more  than 
twenty  days  from  the  time  the  petition  was  received.  He  shall  cause 
written  notice  fixing  the  time  and  place  of  the  meeting  to  be  pre- 
sented to  each  supervisor,  trustee  or  city  councilman  at  least  five 
days  prior  to  the  day  set  for  the  meeting.  Such  meeting  shall  be 
held  at  the  union  high  school  building  unless  some  other  conveni- 
ent place  shall  be  designated  in  the  notice. 

(2)  The  town  board  or  boards  or  said  board  or  boards  and  the 
trustees  or  common  council,  as  the  case  may  be,  shall  jointly  con- 
sider the  alteration  of  the  union  free  high  school  district  as  de- 
scribed in  the  petition,  and  shall  grant  or  refuse  the  same  as  the 


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majority  of  those  present  and  voting  shall  decide.    Such  action  shall 
be  subject  to  appeal  to  the  state  superintendent. 

(3)  In  case  the  town  chairman,   mayor  or   village   president  to 
whom  any  applicaion  shall  have  been  presented,  shall  neglect  or  re- 
fuse to  fix  the  time  and  place  for  or  to  give  notice  of  the  meeting, 
as  provided  in  this  section,  or  in  case  the  town  board  or  boards, 
village  board,  or  common   council  of  any  town,  village  or  city  in 
which  the  whole  or  any  part  of  such  district  shall  be  located,  shall 
neglect  or  refuse  to  be  present  at  such  meeting,  or  shall  refuse  or 
neglect  to  hear  a  vote  upon  the  application  before  them,  the  appli- 
cation shall  be  deemed  denied  and  an  appeal  to  the  state  superin- 
tendent may  be  had  as  in  other  cases  of  denial. 

(4)  Nothing  in  this  section  shall  authorize  the  reduction  of  the 
area  of  any  union  free  high  school  district  to  less  than  thirty-six 
square  miles.     Neither  shall  anything  in  this  section  authorize  the 
inclusion  of  any  new  territory  without  the  consent  of  a  majority  of 
the  electors  residing  therein,  such  majority  to  be  determined  by  an 
election  held  upon  petition  signed  by  at  least  one-tenth  of  the  legal 
voters  resident  in  the  territory  to  be  annexed,  according  to  the  pro- 
visions of  this  act  relating  to  the  election  for  the  establishment  of 
a  union  high  school  in   territory  lying  in  one  or  in  two  or  more 
towns  and  not  including  an  incorporated  village. 

Section  490 — 18.  No  free  high  school  shall  be  established  un- 
less at  least  twenty-five  persons  of  school  age,  residents  of  the 
proposed  free  high  school  district,  give  evidence,  through  examina- 
tion or  otherwise,  satisfactory  to  the  state  superintendent,  that  they 
are  prepared  to  begin  a  high  school  course. 

Section  490 — 19.  Any  election  for  the  establishment  of  a  free 
high  school  shall  be  void  unless  such  free  high  school  is  organized 
within  two  years  from  the  date  of  the  election. 

Section  490 — 20.  (1)  All  taxes  for  the  purposes  of  free  high 
school  districts  shall,  except  as  herein  otherwise  provided,  be  levied 
and  collected  as  in  the  case  of  single  or  joint  common  school  dis- 
tricts of  the  state;  and  all  such  moneys  raised  and  received  for  the 
purpose  of  maintaining  such  free  high  school  shall  be  paid  out  only 
on  orders  drawn  and  countersigned  in  the  manner  prescribed  for 
making  payments  in  common  school  districts. 

(2)  The  clerk  of  the  free  high  school  board  shall  certify  all  taxes 
levied  for  free  high  school  purposes  to  the  town,  city  or  village 
clerk.  If  any  free  high  school  district  is  joint,  consisting  of  the 
whole  or  parts  of  different  municipalities,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the 
clerk  of  the  free,  high  school  board  to  certify  to  the  clerk  of  each 
such  municipality  the  proportionate  amount  to  be  raised  by  each; 
such  apportionment  to  be  determined  according  to  the  total  valua- 
tion of  all  the  taxable  property  as  equalized  by  the  boards  of  re- 
view, a  statement  of  which  shall,  as  soon  as  the  establishment  is 
complete,  be  sent  by  the  respective  clerks  to  the  clerk  of  the  free 
high  school  district. 


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(3)  The  free  high  school  district  taxes  so  apportioned  shall  be 
entered  on  the  next  tax  roll  of  the  various  municipalities  and  col- 
lected and  returned  as  other  taxes  and  paid  to  the  high  school  dis- 
trict treasurer.  Delinquent  taxes  shall  be  returned  to  the  county 
treasurer  as  in  other  cases. 

Section  490 — 21.  If  the  electors  of  any  free  high  school  district 
at  the  annual  or  at  a  subsequent  special  district  meeting  held  prior 
to  the  third  Monday  of  November  following,  shall  not  vote  a  tax 
sufficient  to  maintain  said  free  high  school  for  the  term  of  at  least 
nine  months  during  the  current  year,  the  free  high  school  board 
must,  on  or  before  the  Wednesday  next  following  said  third  Mon- 
day of  November,  determine  the  sum  necessary  to  be  raised  to  so 
maintain  such  free  high  school  and  to  furnish  additional  necessary 
equipment,  and  the  clerk  shall  forthwith  certify  to  the  proper  town, 
city  or  village  clerks  the  amount  so  fixed.  Upon  receipt  of  this  cer- 
tificate the  town,  village  or  city  clerks  shall  assess  the  same  as  other 
taxes  are  assessed. 

Section  490 — 22.  Whenever  any  town  free  high  school  district, 
comprising  two  towns  and  a  city,  shall  have  been  established  and 
if  after  such  establishment  any  school  district,  a  part  only  of  which 
lies  in  such  joint  town  free  high  school  district,  shall  establish  and 
maintain  a  district  free  high  school,  that  part  of  such  district  free 
high  school  district  lying  in  the  joint  town  free  high  school  district 
shall  be  exempt  from  taxation  for  high  school  purposes  in  the  joint 
town  free  high  school  district. 

Section  490 — 23.  The  free  high  schools  shall  be  free  to  all  pu- 
pils resident  in  the  district.  Every  principal  of  such  school  shall, 
in  addition  to  his  qualification  as  teacher  of  a  common  school,  be  a 
graduate  of  some  university,  college  or  normal  school,  hold  a  state 
certificate  or  pass  an  examination  in  the  studies  required  to  be 
taught  in  any  such  school;  provided  the  state  certificates  authorized 
by  law  and  the  certificates  authorized  by  section  496a  shall  qualify 
their  holders  both  as  principal  and  as  teachers  of  common  schools; 
and  each  principal  and  assistant  teacher  in  a  free  high  school  shall 
be  eligible  to  teach  only  on  approval  of  his  certificate  by  the  state 
superintendent;  and  the  free  high  school  board  or  boards  of  edu- 
cation having  charge  of  such  schools  shall  determine,  with  the  ad- 
vice and  consent  of  such  superintendent,  the  course  of  study  and 
minimum  standard  of  qualification  for  admission  to  the  same. 

Section  490 — 24.  The  free  high  school  board  shall  conduct  the 
affairs  of  the  free  high  school  district  on  the  same  general  plan  pro- 
vided for  a  common  school  district,  and  possess,  with  respect  to 
such  free  high  school  district  all  the  powers  and  be  charged  with  all 
the  duties  conferred  and  imposed  by  these  statutes  on  the  district 
officers  and  district  board  of  a  common  school  district.  It  shall 
provide  adequate  teaching  force  and  necessary  equipment,  such  as 
seats,  desks,  apparatus,  library  books  and  general  supplies.  The 
treasurer  shall  give  a  like  bond  to  be  approved  and  filed  in  a  simi- 
lar manner.  The  free  high  school  district  clerk  shall  make  a  report 


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of  the  high  school  similar  to  that  required  by  section  462,  omitting 
the  first  subdivision.  The  board  may  grade  such  school  and  estab- 
lish the  branches  of  study  to  be  taught  therein,  under  the  advice 
and  approval  of  the  state  superintendent.  Every  forfeiture  and 
punishment  for  neglect  or  violation  of  duty  by  a  common  school  dis- 
trict officer  shall  apply  to  a  free  high  school  district  officer  for  like 
neglect  or  violation.  The  report  of  free  high  schools  in  cities  not 
under  a  county  superintendent  shall  be  included  in  the  reports  from 
such  cities  to  the  state  superintendent. 

Section  490 — 25.  (1)  Except  as  specially  provided  otherwise, 
the  annual  school  district  meeting  shall  be  the  annual  meeting  of 
the  high  school  district  for  the  transaction  of  business  relating  to 
the  high  school,  and  special  high  school  district  meetings  may  be 
held  as  in  the  case  of  common  school  districts. 

(2)  Every  resident  elector  of  the  free  high  school  district  shall 
be  entitled  to  vote  at  any  annual  or  special  meeting;  provided  such 
elector  has  resided  therein  for  at  least  thirty  days  preceding  such 
meeting. 

(3)  At  the  election  held  for  the  purpose  of  establishing  a  free 
high  .school  district  the  electors  may  vote  to  provide  a  sum  of  money 
sufficient  for  the  support  and  maintenance  of  the  high   school  for 
the  next  succeeding  year,  and  may  also  authorize  the  board  to  lease 
suitable  rooms  and  provide  necessary  equipment  for  the  use  of  the 
high  school. 

(4)  No  tax,  or  loan,  or  debt  shall  be  voted  at  a  special  meeting 
unless  three-fourths   of  the  legal  voters  shall  have  been  notified, 
either  personally  or  by  a  written  notice  left  at  their  place  of  resi- 
dence, stating  the  time,  place  and  object  of  the  meeting,  and  speci- 
fying the  amount  proposed  to  be  voted  at  least  six  days  before  the 
time  appointed  therefor,  exclusive  of  the  day  on  which  the  meet- 
ing is  to  be  held. 

Section  490 — 26.  The  inhabitants  of  any  free  high  school  dis- 
trict, qualified  by  law  to  vote  at  a  free  high  school  district  meeting 
when  assembled  at  the  first  and  each  annual  meeting  in  their  high 
school  district  or  at  any  adjournment  thereof,  shall  have  power: 

(1)  To  appoint  a  chairman  for  the  time  being,  and   in  the  ab- 
sence of  the  clerk,  appoint  some  person  to  act  in  his  stead.     The 
person  so  appointed  shall  certify  the  proceedings  of  such  meeting 
to  the  free  high  school  district  clerk,  who  shall  enter  the  same  in 
the  records  of  the  free  high  school  district  and  file  and  preserve 
the  certificate  of  such  temporary  clerk. 

(2)  To  adjourn  from  time  to  time  as  occasion  may  require. 

(3)  To  vote  such  tax  as  the  meeting  shall  deem  .sufficient  to  pur- 
chase or  lease  a  suitable  site  for  the  free  high  school;  to  build,  hire 
or  purchase  a  schoolhouse;  to  keep  in  repair  and  furnish  the  same 
with  necessary   furniture,   ventilating   and   heating   apparatus,   and 
to   provide  for   the   equipment   and   maintenance   of   the   free  high 
school. 


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(4)  To  authorize  and  direct  the  sale   of  any  free  high  school- 
house  site,  or  other  property  belonging  to  the  free  high  school  dis- 
trict when  the  same  shall  no  longer  be  needed  for  use  in  the  dis- 
trict. 

(5)  To  impose  such  a  tax  as  may  be  necessary  to  discharge  any 
debts  or  liabilities  of  the  free  high  school  district  lawfully  incurred. 

(6)  To   authorize  the  free  high  school  district  board  to  borrow 
money  as  provided  in  the  statutes. 

(7)  To  authorize  the  free  high  school  district  board  to  purchase 
textbooks  for  use  in  such  free  high  school,  to  be  loaned  or  furn- 
ished to  the  pupils  under  such  conditions  as  may  be  prescribed  by 
the  electors  or  by  regulation  of  the  board. 

(8)  To  determine  the  length  of  time  a  free  high  school  shall  be 
taught  in  such  free  high  school  district  during  the  ensuing  year, 
which  time  shall  not  be  less  than  nine  months. 

(9)  At  the  annual  meeting   only,  to  vote  a   tax  to   compensate 
the  clerk,  the  treasurer  and  the  director,  which  in  free  high  school 
districts  supporting  graded   and  high  schools,  shall  be  such  sums 
as  may  be  voted;  and  in  union  free  high  school  districts  and  joint 
free  high   school   districts,  not  more  than   twenty-five  dollars,   nor 
less  than  five  dollars  to  each  of  the  above  officers. 

Section  490 — 27.  The  state  superintendent  shall  prepare  a 
course  or  courses  of  study  suitable  to  be  pursued  in  free  high 
schools,  publish  the  same  and  furnish  the  same  upon  application. 
He  shall  exercise  such  personal  supervision  and  make  such  personal 
inspection  of  the  work  of  such  schools  as  they  seem  to  require  and 
the  other  duties  of  his  office  may  warrant;  he  shall  examine  or  cause 
to  be  examined  all  teachers  of  free  high  schools,  required  by  law 
to  pass  such  examinations  to  qualify  them  for  teaching  in  high 
schools,  and  grant  certificates  to  such  as  pass  examinations  satis- 
factorily, which  certificate  shall  be  in  such  form  and  for  such  time 
as  he  may  prescribe,  and  shall  authorize  the  holder  to  teach  in  such 
special  place  or  places,  or  in  the  whole  state,  as  the  qualifications 
of  the  candidate  may  warrant.  Said  superintendent  shall  furnish 
suitable  blanks  for  annual  and  special  reports  for  all  such  schools 
which  shall  require  returns  as  to  the  number,  age  and  sex  of  all 
pupils  enrolled,  the  number  in  each  class  or  in  the  course  of  study, 
the  number  pursuing  English  branches  only,  the  number  complet- 
ing the  course  of  study  each  year,  and  such  other  statistics  as  may 
be  deemed  necessary. 

Section  490 — 28.  The  school  board  of  any  school  district  main- 
taining a  free  high  school  or. a  union  free  high  school  and  not  con- 
taining a  city  in  which  a  city  superintendent  is  employed,  may  con- 
tract with  a  qualified  teacher  who  shall  have  at  least  one  year's 
experience  as  a  principal  of  a  high  school  to  act  as  principal  of  such 
high  school  for  a  term  of  not  more  than  three  years. 

Section  490 — 29.  (1)  Any  free  high  school  district  may  be 
dissolved,  or  one  of  two  or  more  free  high  schools  maintained  by  any 


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free  high  school  district,  may  be  discontinued  by  the  same  course 
of  procedure  required  to  establish  such  free  high  school  district  in 
the  territory  comprised  in  the  district  at  the  time  such  dissolution 
or  discontinuance  is  proposed,  except  that  the  approval  of  the  state 
superintendent  shall  not  be  necessary  for  such  dissolution  or  dis- 
continuance; but  no  election  for  such  dissolution  shall  be  held 
within  four  years  after  the  date  when  such  free  high  school  district 
was  organized. 

(2)  Ballots  at  such  election  shall  be  written  or  printed  "for  dis- 
solution" and  "against  dissolution"  or  "for  discontinuance"1  and 
"against  discontinuance",  as  the  case  may  be. 

Section  490 — 30.  After  the  dissolution  of  any  free  high  school 
district  the  property  of  such  dissolved  district  shall  be  disposed  of 
and  the  assets  and  debts  shall  be  apportioned  and  distributed  sub- 
ject to  and  in  the  manner  provided  by  section  424  of  the  statutes, 
so  far  as  the  same  may  be  applicable. 

Section  490 — 31.  The  free  high  school  board  of  any  free  high 
school  district,  organized  under  the  laws  of  this  state,  shall  admit 
to  the  high  school  under  its  control,  whenever  .the  facilities  for 
seating  and  instruction  will  warrant,  any  person  of  school  age  pre- 
pared to  enter  such  school,  who  may  reside  in  any  town  or  incor- 
porated village  but  not  within  any  free  high  school  district,  and 
who  shall  have  completed  the  course  of  study  in  the  school  district 
in  which  he  resides,  or  one  equivalent  thereto.  Persons  so  admitted 
shall  be  entitled  to  the  same  privileges  and  be  subject  to  the  same 
rules  and  regulations  as  pupils  of  the  school  who  are  residents  of 
the  free  high  school  district. 

Section  490 — 32.  (1)  Whenever  persons  not  residing  in  any  free 
high  school  district  and  having  completed  the  course  of  study  in 
the  school  district  in  which  they  reside,  or  one  equivalent  thereto, 
as  herein  provided,  enter  any  free  high  school  in  Wisconsin,  or  any 
free  high  school  in  another  state,  which  is  nearer  to  the  home  of 
such  persons  than  any  free  high  school  in  this  state,  offering  a  course 
of  study  equivalent  to  the  course  of  study  in  free  high  schools  in 
Wisconsin,  the  free  high  school  board  of  that  district  shall  be  en- 
titled and  is  hereby  authorized  to  charge  a  tuition  fee  for  such  pu- 
pils not  exceeding  one  dollar  per  week. 

(2)  On  or  before  the  first  day  of  July  in  each  year  the  secretary 
of  the  free  high  school  board  shall  make  a  sworn  statement  to  the 
clerk  of  the  city,  town  or  village  from  which  any  person  may  have 
been  admitted  to  said  free  high  .school,  setting  forth  the  residence, 
name,  age  and  date  of  entrance  to  such  school,  and  the  number  of 
months'  attendance  during  the  preceding  school  year,  of  each  per- 
son so  admitted  from  such  city,  town  or  village.  Such  statement 
shall  further  show  the  amount  of  tuition  which,  under  the  provi- 
sions of  this  section,  the  district  is  entitled  to  receive  for  each  per- 
son reported  as  having  been  a  member  of  the  .school  from  such  city, 
town  or  village  and  the  aggregate  sum  for  tuition  for  all  such  per- 
sons. Said  statement  shall  be  filed  as  a  claim  against  the  town, 


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city  or  village  where  such  person  resides,  and  shall  be  allowed  as 
other  claims  are  allowed. 

(3)  A  certificate  or  common  school  diploma  issued  by  or  under 
the  direction  of  the  county  or  district  superintendent  of  schools, 
setting  forth  that  the  holder  thereof  has  completed  the  course  of 
study  in  the  school  district  in  which  he  resides,  or  one  equivalent 
thereof,  which  course  shall  be  at  least  equivalent  to  the  course  of 
study  provided  by  the  state  superintendent  for  the  common  schools 
of  the  state,  or  a  duly  certified  copy  thereof,  shall  be  evidence  of 
the  completion  of  the  course  of  study,  as  provided  in  this  section. 
Such  certificate  or  diploma,  or  a  certified  copy  thereof,  shall  be  filed 
with  the  secretary  of  the  free  high  school  district  upon  admission 
of  the  holder  to  the  free  high  school.  All  diplomas,  certificates  or 
certified  copies  thereof  so  filed  shall  be  attached  to  the  sworn  state- 
ment of  such  secretary  when  making  claim  for  tuition  to  the  town 
in  which  such  person  resides,  as  hereinbefore  provided. 

Section  490 — 33.  (1)  The  village  clerk  shall  enter  upon  the 
tax  roll  of  the  village  for  the  ensuing  year  such  sums  as  may  be  due 
for  tuition  on  account  of  residents  of  the  village  who  have  attended 
such  free  high  school  or  schools,  and  the  amount  so  entered  shall 
be  collected  when  and  as  other  taxes  are  collected,  and  shall  be 
paid,  when  so  collected,  to  the  treasurer  of  the  free  high  school  dis- 
trict or  districts  where  such  persons  have  attended  the  free  high 
school  or  schools. 

(2)  The  clerk  of  any  town  not  having  within  its  territory  a  free 
high  school  district  shall  enter  upon  the  tax  roll  of  the  town  for  the 
ensuing  year  such  sums  as  may  be  due  for  tuition  on  account  of  the 
residents  of  the  town  who  have  attended  such  free  high  school  or 
schools,  and  the  amounts  so  entered  shall  be  collected  when  and  as 
other  taxes  are  collected,  and  shall  be  paid  when  so  collected  to  the 
treasurer  of  the  free  high  school  district  where  such  persons  have 
attended  the  free  high  school  or  schools. 

(3)  The  clerk  of  any  town  or  city,  a  portion  of  which  constitutes 
or  forms  a  part  of  a  free  high  school  district  shall  enter  upon  the 
tax  roll  for  that  part  of  the  town  or  city  not  within  a  free  high 
school  district  such  sums  as  may  be  due  for  tuition  on  account  of 
residents  of  that  portion  of  the  town  or  city  that  have  attended  such 
free  high  school  or  schools,  and  the  amounts  so  entered  shall  be 
collected  when  and  as  other  taxes  are  collected  and  shall  be  paid, 
when  so  collected,  to  the  treasurer  of  the  free  high  school  district 
where  such  persons  have  attended  the  free  high  school. 

Section  496c — 2.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  school  board  of  every 
union  free  high  school  in  the  state,  to  publish,  or  cause  to  be  pub- 
lished, or  posted  in  five  prominent  places,  during  the  week  preced- 
ing the  annual  meeting,  a  summarized  financial  report  of  receipts 
and  disbursements  for  the  preceding  year  for  such  district,  and  the 
recommendations  for  the  following  year,  in  a  newspaper  published 
within  the  town,  city  or  village  where  such  school  is  located;  said 


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report  not  to  exceed  five  folios,  and  in  case  there  is  no  newspaper 
published  within  such  town,  city  or  village,  then  such  report  shall 
be  published  in  any  newspaper  having  a  general  circulation  in  such 
town,  city  or  village,  and  published  within  the  county  where  such 
school  is  located. 

(20.27)  (1)  Annually,  on  October  first,  not  exceeding  one  hun- 
dred thousand  dollars,  for  state  aid  to  school  districts  which  shall 
have  established  and  maintained  one  or  more  district  free  high 
schools  as  provided  by  la*w. 

(20.27)  (2)  Annually,  on  October  first,  not  exceeding  seventy- 
five  thousand  dollars,  for  state  aid  for  union  free  high  schools  and 
for  consolidated  free  hfgh  schools;  but  if  the  aggregate  claims 
against  this  appropriation  in  any  year  are  less  than  the  whole  ap- 
propriation the  remainder  thereof  for  that  year  is  appropriated  and 
added  to  the  appropriation  for  that  year  made  by  subsection.  (1). 

(20.27)  (3)  (b)  Thereupon,  on  or  before  the  first  day  of  Octo- 
ber, the  state  superintendent  shall,  subject  to  the  provisions  of  para- 
graph (c),  fix  and  certify  to  the  secretary  of  state  the  amounts  ac- 
cruing to  each  such  district,  as  follows:  for  each  district  free  high 
school  which  shall  have  been  maintained  for  not  less  than  eight 
months  in  such  .school  year,  one-half  of  the  amount  expended  for 
instruction  in  such  school  over  and  above  the  amount  required  by 
law  to  be  expended  for  common  school  purposes,  but  not  to  exceed 
five  hundred  dollars  to  any  district  free  high  school  in  any  one 
year;  for  each  free  high  school  mentioned  in  subsection  (2)  one- 
half  the  amount  expended  for  instruction  in  such  school,  but  not 
exceeding  nine  hundred  dollars  to  any  such  school  having  a  princi- 
pal and  one  assistant,  not  exceeding  twelve  hundred  dollars  to  any 
such  school  having  a  principal  and  two  assistants,  and  not  exceed- 
ing fifteen  hundred  dollars  to  any  such  school  having  a  principal 
and  three  or  more  assistants;  but  no  state  aid  shall  be  apportioned 
to  any  free  high  school  after  it  has  been  in  operation  for  four  years 
unless  the  average  daily  attendance  for  the  year  is  at  least  fifteen 
pupils. 

Section  4.  On  and  after  July  1st,  1917,  all  free  high  schools 
heretofore  established  and  maintained  according  to  the  provisions 
of  the  statutes  for  organization  and  maintenance  of  town  free  high 
schools,  shall  be  known  and  designated  as  union  free  high  schools, 
and  shall  thereafter  be  conducted  and  maintained  according  to  the 
provisions  of  the  statutes  governing  the  organization  and  mainte- 
nance of  union  free  high  schools.  The  town  free  high  school  board 
in  office  July  1st,  1917,  shall  thereafter  constitute  the  union  free 
high  school  board,  and  the  members  thereof  shall  continue  in  office 
for  the  term  for  which  they  were  elected,  except  that  the  limit  of 
the  term  of  each  member  shall  be  the  third  Monday  of  March,  at 
the  time  of  the  union  high  school  district  meeting,  when  their  suc- 
cessors shall  be  elected  according  to  the  provisions  of  the  union  free 
high  school  law. 

This  chapter  rearranges  the  entire  high  school  law  for  the  state. 
High  schools  maintained  in  ordinary  school  districts  will  continue  to 


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operate  as  heretofore.  What  have  hitherto  been  known  as  Town 
Free  High  Schools  cease  to  exist  as  Town  Free  High  Schools.  By 
this  statute,  however,  they  are  placed  under  the  head  of  Union  Free 
High  School  districts.  The  courses  of  study,  employment  of  teach- 
ers, state  aid,  etc.,  are  not  affected.  These  schools  will  hereafter  be 
known  as  Union  Free  High  Schools,  and  the  conduct  of  meetings, 
election  of  officers,  etc..,  etc.,  will  be  held  in  accordance  with  the 
directions  given  above. 

It  will  be  readily  recognized  that  this  is  a  much  more  popular 
form  of  school  government  for  these  large  districts  than  was  offered 
by  the  abolished  Town  Free  High  School  law.  Under  the  Town  Free 
High  School  law,  the  elections,  being  held  on  the  day  of  town  elec- 
tions, tended  to  confuse  school  matters  with  town  politics  and  also 
to  keep  women  electors  from  exercising  the  right  of  voting  on  school 
matters.  The  change  of  form  of  school  government  will  prove  bene- 
ficial and  satisfactory  in  every  way. 

Chapter  580.  Section  1.  There  is  added  to  the  statutes  a  new 
section  and  to  section  20.32  a  new  subsection  to  read:  Section  579t. 
(1)  Upon  application  by  the  district  board  of  any  school  district 
embracing  within  its  limits  any  village  or  city,  or  the  board  of  edu- 
cation of  any  city,  the  state  superintendent  may  authorize  such 
school  district  board  or  board  of  education  to  establish  and  main- 
tain within  the  corporate  limits  of  any  such  village  or  city,  respect- 
ively, a  special  class  for  the  instruction  of  exceptional  persons  of 
school  age  who  reside  in  said  school  district  or  city. 

2.  The  courses,  qualifications  of  teachers  and  plan  of  organizing 
and   maintaining   such   special   classes   shall   comply   with  such   re- 
quirements as  may  be  outlined  by  the  state  superintendent  of  pub- 
lic instruction. 

3.  The   state  superintendent  of  public   instruction   shall   appoint 
in  his  department  a  person  of  suitable  training  and  experience  who 
shall  have  general  supervision  of  such  classes  and  who  shall  give 
special  attention  to  examining,  testing  and  classifying  the  pupils  ap- 
plying for  admission  to  such  special  classes  and  perform  such  other 
duties  as  the  state  superintendent  may  direct.    Such  supervisor  shall 
be  exempt  from  the  provisions  of  sections  16.01  to  16.29,  inclusive, 
of  the  statutes,  and  his  salary  shall  be  fixed  by  the  state  superin- 
tendent, provided  such  salary  shall  not  exceed  two  thousand  dol- 
lars per  year. 

4.  The    board    of    education    maintaining    such   special    class    or 
classes  under  the  provisions  of  this  section  shall,  through  its  sec- 
retary or  other  executive  officer,  report  annually  to  the  state  super- 
intendent, or  oftener  if  he  so  directs,  such  facts  relative  to  such 
class  or  classes  as  he  may  require. 

5.  Upon  the  receipt  of  such  report,  if  it  shall  appear  that  the 
special  class  or  classes  have  been  taught  by  qualified  teachers  and 
in  every  respect  maintained  in  accordance  with  the  requirements 
governing  such  special  classes,  the  state  superintendent  shall  certify 
to  the  secretary  of  state,  as  due  each  board  of  education  maintain- 
ing such  special  classes,  a  sum  equal  to  one-third  the  amount  ex- 
pended for  salaries  of  teachers  of   such  special  classes,   provided 


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such  sum  shall  not  exceed  three  hundred  dollars  per  year  for  each 
of  said  teachers;  provided,  further,  that  in  case  the  average  at- 
tendance of  any  such  special  class  shall  be  less  than  the  minimum 
attendance  required  by  the  regulations  governing  such  classes,  the 
state  superintendent  may  in  his  discretion  apportion  a  sum  which 
shall  bear  the  same  relation  to  the  apportionment  hereinbefore  pro- 
vided as  the  average  daily  attendance  bears  to  the  required  mini- 
mum attendance.  Upon  receiving  such  certificate,  the  secretary  of 
state  shall  draw  his  warrant,  payable  to  the  treasurer  of  the  school 
board  maintaining  such  classes,  for  the  amount  specified  in  such 
certificate. 

Chapter  614.  (Ch.  459,  laws  of  1907)  Section  16.  1.  The  said 
board  shall  report  to  the  common  council  of  each  city  under  this 
act,  at  or  before  the  first  meeting  of  the  council  in  September  in 
each  year,  the  amount  of  money  required  for  the  next  fiscal  year 
for  the  support  of  all  public  schools  in  said  city  including  high 
schools,  and  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  said  common  council  to  levy 
and  collect  a  tax  upon  all  the  property  subject  to  taxation  in  said 
city,  at  the  same  time  and  in  the  same  manner  as  other  taxes  are 
levied  and  collected  by  law,  which,  together  with  the  other  funds 
provided  by  law,  and  placed  at  the  disposal  of  said  city  for  the 
same  purpose,  shall  be  equal  to  the  amount  of  money  so  required 
by  the  said  board  of  school  directors  for  school  purposes,  as  pro- 
vided in  this  act;  the  .said  board  shall  also  report  to  the  common 
council,  at  the  same  time  as  above,  the  amount  of  money  required 
for  the  next  fiscal  year  for  the  repair  and  keeping  in  order  of  school 
buildings,  fixtures  and  the  repair  of  broken  or  worn  out  furniture, 
the  making  of  material  betterments  to  school  property  and  the  pur- 
chase of  the  necessary  additions  to  school  sites,  in  accordance  with 
the  provisions  of  this  act,  and  it  .shall  be  the  duty  of  the  said  com- 
mon council  to  levy  and  collect  a  tax  upon  all  the  real  and  personal 
property  in  said  city,  subject  to  taxation,  at  the  same  time  and  in 
the  same  manner  as  other  taxes  are  levied  and  collected  by  law, 
which  shall  be  equal  to  the  amount  of  money  so  required  by  the 
said  board  of  school  directors  for  the  said  purpose,  as  provided  in 
this  act;  provided,  that  the  tax  so  levied  upon  each  dollar  of  the 
assessed  valuation  of  all  property,  real  and  personal,  in  said  city, 
subject  to  taxation,  shall  not  in  any  one  year,  exceed  two  and  seven- 
tenths  (2.7)  mills,  except  that  for  the  years  nineteen  hundred  and 
eighteen  and  nineteen  hundred  and  nineteen  it  shall  not  exceed  two 
and  nine-tenths  (2.9)  mills  on  the  dollar  of  the  total  assessed  valu- 
ation of  all  property,  real  and  personal,  in  such  city,  subject  to  tax- 
ation, for  the  support  of  all  schools,  and  three-tenths  (.3)  of  a  mill 
upon  the  dollar  of  the  total  assessed  value  of  all  property,  real  and 
personal,  in  such  city,  subject  to  taxation,  for  the  repair  and  keep- 
ing in  order  of  school  buildings,  fixtures,  grounds  and  fences,  the 
purchase  of  school  furniture  and  the  repair  of  broken  and  worn 


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out  furniture,  the  making  of  material  betterments  to  school  prop- 
erty and  the  purchase  of  necessary  additions  to  school  sites,  and  the 
said  taxes  for  the  purpose  named  in  this  section  shall  be  in  addition 
to  the  ten  (10)  mill  tax  provided  for  by  law  for  other  city  pur- 
poses. The  said  tax  and  the  entire  school  fund  of  the  city  shall  not 
be  used  or  appropriated,  directly  or  indirectly,  for  any  other  pur- 
pose than  the  payment  of  the  salaries  of  the  superintendent  of 
schools  and  his  legally  authorized  assistants,  the  secretary  of  the 
school  board,  and  legally  qualified  teachers  whose  appointments 
are  confirmed  by  said  board  and  such  employes  as  the  board  may 
deem  necessary,  the  necessary  and  current  expenses  of  the  schools, 
including  the  purchase  of  school  supplies,  apparatus,  fuel,  gas, 
electricity  or  electrical  power,  and  such  other  school  purchases  and 
purposes  as  may  be  required  for  the  proper  maintenance  and  admin- 
istration of  the  schools. 

2.  All  moneys  received  by  or  raised  in  such  city  for  school  pur- 
poses shall  be  paid  over  to  the  city  treasurer,  to  be  disbursed  by 
him  on  the  orders  of  the  president  and  secretary  of  said  board, 
countersigned  by  the  city  comptroller;  provided,  that  the  president, 
instead  of  signing  each  order,  may  certify  upon  the  pay  rolls  furn- 
ished by  the  secretary  to  the  comptroller  to  the  fact  that  the 
amounts  therein  are  correct  as  allowed  by  said  board.  Provided, 
that  the  board  of  school  directors  may  provide  by  resolution  for 
the  payment  of  all  persons  employed  by  said  board  in  the  service 
of  the  city  upon  monthly  pay  rolls,  and  the  manner  in  which  the 
same  shall  be  certified,  audited  and  approved,  and  payment  made 
thereon,  and  such  pay  rolls  shall  in  all  cases  be  certified  by  the 
president  and  secretary  and  finance  committee  of  said  board  of 
school  directors,  and  countersigned  by  the  city  comptroller  of  such 
city. 

This  chapter  amends  section  16  of  chapter  459  of  the  Laws  of 
1907.  This  law  relates  to  cities  of  the  first  class  only  (Milwaukee  is 
the  only  city  of  this  class  in  Wisconsin). 

Chapter  652.  Section  560m.  All  special  state  aid  for  first  class 
rural  schools  for  the  year  ending  June  30,  1917,  and  all  state  aid 
on  account  of  transportation  of  children  to  and  from  school  for  the 
year  ending  June  30,  1917,  in  accordance  with  sections  419e  to  419h, 
inclusive,  430 — 1  to  430 — 8,  inclusive,  496 — 9  to  496 — 12,  in- 
clusive, 496q  to  496t,  inclusive,  and  subsection  7  of  section  496e, 
statutes  of  1915,  shall  be  apportioned  and  paid  in  accordance  with 
the  provisions  of  the  statutes  of  1915. 

Chapter  674.  Section  439a — 1.  Until  September  first,  1918,  any 
person  between  the  ages  of  fourteen  and  sixteen,  unless  indentured 
as  an  apprentice,  as  provided  in  section  2377,  and  after  that  date  any 
person  between  the  ages  of  fourteen  and  seventeen,  living  within 
two  miles  of  the  school  of  any  town,  or  within  the  corporate  limits 


70'  SCHOOL  LAWS  OP  WISCONSIN,   1917 

of  any  city  or  village  and  not  physically  incapacitated,  who  is  not 
required  by  section  43 9a  to  attend  some  public,  private  or  parochial 
school,  and  who  is  not  attending  a  free  high  school  or  equivalent 
of  a  high  school,  must  either  attend  some  public,  private,  or  paro- 
chial school,  or  attend  for  at  least  eight  hours  a  week  for  at  least 
eight  months  and  for  such  additional  months  or  parts  thereof  as 
the  other  public  schools  in  such  city,  town  or  village  are  in  session 
in  excess  of  eight  during  the  regular  school  year,  or  the  equivalent 
as  may  be  determined  by  the  local  board  of  industrial  education, 
an  industrial,  continuation,  or  commercial  school,  provided  .such 
school  or  schools  are  maintained  according  to  the  provisions  of  sec- 
tions 553p — 1  to  553p — 9,  inclusive,  in  the  town,  village  or  city  in 
which  his  parents  or  guardians  reside.  This  section  shall  apply 
only  to  persons  between  the  ages  herein  specified,  living  in  towns, 
villages  and  cities,  maintaining  schools  as  provided  in  sections  553p 
— 1  to  553p — 9,  inclusive,  of  the  statutes. 

(Section  1728a)  1.  No  child  between  the  ages  of  fourteen  and 
seventeen  years  unless  indentured  as  an  apprentice,  as  provided  in 
section  2377  of  the  statutes,  shall  be  employed,  required,  suffered 
or  permitted  to  work  at  any  time  in  any  factory,  or  workshop,  store, 
hotel,  restaurant,  bakery,  mercantile  establishment,  laundry,  tele- 
graph, telephone  or  public  messenger  service,  or  the  delivery  of  any 
merchandise,  or  at  any  gainful  occupation,  or  employment,  directly 
or  indirectly,  or,  in  cities  wherein  a  vocational  school  is  maintained, 
in  domestic  service  other  than  casual  employment  in  such  service, 
unless  there  is  first  obtained  from  the  industrial  commission  or 
from  a  judge  of  a  county,  municipal,  or  juvenile  court  designated 
by  the  industrial  commission  where  such  child  resides,  or  from  some 
other  person  designated  by  said  commission,  a  written  permit  au- 
thorizing the  employment  of  such  child  in  such  employment  within 
such  timB  or  times  as  the  said  industrial  commission  or  a  judge  or 
other  person  designated  by  said  commission  may  fix;  providing, 
that  such  times  shall  not  conflict  with  those  designated  in  subsec- 
tion 1  of  section  1728c. 

(Section  1728a — 3)  1.  The  permit  required  by  section  1728a 
of  the  statutes  shall  contain  the  signature  of  the  director  of  the 
continuation  school  where  the  child  is  to  attend  and  state  the  name, 
the  date  and  place  of  birth  of  the  child,  and  describe  the  color  of 
hair  and  eyes,  the  height  and  weight,  and  any  distinguishing  facial 
marks  of  such  child,  and  that  the  papers  required  in  subsection  2 
hereof  have  been  duly  examined,  approved  and  filed. 

Section  1728b.  1.  Every  person,  firm  or  corporation,  agent  or 
manager  of  any  firm  or  corporation  employing  minors  in  domestic 
service  coming  within  the  provisions  of  subsection  I  of  section 
1728a  or  in  any  factory  or  workshop,  store,  office,  hotel,  restaurant, 
bakery,  mercantile  establishment,  laundry,  telegraph,  telephone  or 
public  messenger  service  within  this  state  shall  keep  a  register  in 
the  place  where  such  minor  is  employed,  and  subject  at  all  times 


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to  the  inspection  of  any  factory  inspector,  or  assistant  factory  in- 
spector, or  truant  officer,  in  which  register  shall  be  recorded  the 
name,  age,  date  of  birth  and  place  of  residence  of  every  child  em- 
ployed, permitted  or  suffered  to  work  therein,  under  the  age  of  sev- 
enteen years,  except  as  provided  by  section  2377,  for  indentured 
apprentices. 

2.  No  person,  firm  or  corporation,  agent  or  manager  of  any  firm 
or  corporation  shall  hire  or  employ,  permit  or  suffer  to  work  in  any 
domestic  service,  coming  within  the  provisions  of  subsection  I  of 
section  1728a,  mercantile  establishment,  factory  or  workshop,  store, 
office,  hotel,  restaurant,  bakery,  laundry,  telegraph,  telephone  or 
public  messenger  service,  any  child  not  indentured  as  an  apprentice 
as  provided  in  section  2377,  under  seventeen  years  of  age,  unless 
there  is  first  provided  and  placed  on  file  in  such  mercantile  estab- 
lishment, factory,  workshop,  store,  office,  hotel,  restaurant,  bakery, 
laundry,  telegraph,  telephone  or  public  messenger  service  office,  or 
other  place  of  employment  included  herein  a  permit  granted  by  the 
industrial  commission  or  by  any  judge  or  person  designated  by  said 
commission  as  provided  in  section  1728a. 

(Section  1728c)  1.  No  child  under  the  age  of  sixteen  years 
shall  be  employed,  required,  permitted  or  suffered  to  work  at  any 
gainful  occupation,  other  than  domestic  service  or  farm  labor,  for 
more  than  forty-eight  hours  in  any  one  week,  nor  more  than  eight 
hours  in  any  one  day,  or  before  the  hour  of  seven  o'clock,  in  the 
morning  or  after  the  hour  of  six  o'clock  in  the  evening,  nor  more 
than  six  days  in  any  one  week.  A  dinner  period  of  not  less  than 
thirty  minutes  shall  be  allowed  during  each  day.  During  such  din- 
ner period  the  power  shall  be  shut  off  from  machinery  operated  by 
children,  and  no  work  shall  be  permitted.  Provided  nothing  in  sec- 
tions 1728a  to  1728J,  inclusive,  shall  be  construed  to  interfere  with 
the  employment  of  children  as  provided  in  sections  1728a — 1  and 
1728u  of  the  statutes. 

(Section  1728c — 1)  1.  Whenever  any  day  continuation  classes, 
industrial  school  or  commercial  school  shall  be  established  in  any 
town,  village  or  city  in  this  state  for  minors  between  the  ages  of 
fourteen  and  sixteen,  working  under  permit  as  now  provided  by  law, 
every  such  child  residing  or  employed  within  any  town,  village  or 
city  in  which  any  such  school  is  established,  shall  attend  such  school 
in  the  daytime  not  less  than  eight  hours  per  week  for  at  least  eight 
months  in  each  year  and  for  such  additional  months  or  parts  thereof 
as  the  other  public  schools  in  such  city,  town  or  village  are  in  ses- 
sion in  excess  of  eight  during  the  regular  school  year,  or  the  equiv- 
alent as  may  be  determined  by  the  local  board  of  industrial  educa- 
tion, subject  to  the  provisions  of  section  439a — 1,  until  such  child 
becomes  sixteen  years  of  age,  and  every  employer  shall  allow  all 
minor  employes  over  fourteen  and  under  sixteen  years  of  age  a  re- 
duction in  hours  of  work  of  not  less  than  the  number  Qf  hours  the 
minor  is  by  this  section  required  to  attend  school. 


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(Section  1728e)  1.  The  industrial  commission  or  judge  or  other 
person  designated  by  the  commission  under  section  1728a,  may  re- 
fuse to  grant  permits  in  the  case  of  children  who  may  seem  physi- 
cally unable  to  perform  the  labor  at  which  they  may  be  employed. 
They  may  also  refuse  to  grant  a  permit  if,  in  their  judgment,  the 
best  interests  of  the  child  would  be  served  by  such  refusal. 

(Section  172 80 — 2)  1.  Until  September  first,  1918,  whenever 
an  industrial,  continuation  or  commercial  school  shall  be  estab- 
lished according  to  the  provisions  of  sections  553p — 1  to  553p — 9, 
inclusive,  of  the  .statutes,  in  any  town,  village  or  city,  any  minor 
not  indentured  as  an  apprentice  as  provided  in  section  2377  of  the 
statutes,  or  not  regularly  attending  any  other  recognized  school  be- 
tween the  ages  of  sixteen  and  seventeen,  residing  or  working  in 
such  town,  village  or  city,  shall  attend  such  school  in  the  daytime 
not  less  than  four  hours  per  week  for  at  least  eight  months  in  each 
year  and  for  such  additional  months  or  parts  thereof  as  the  other 
public  schools  of  such  city,  town  or  village  are  in  session  in  excess 
of  eight  during  the  regular  school  year  or  the  equivalent  as  may  be 
determined  by  the  local  board  of  industrial  education.  Every  em- 
ployer shall  allow  all  such  minor  employes  a  reduction  in  hours  of 
worn:  of  not  less  than  the  number  of  hours  the  minor  is  by  this  sec- 
tion required  to  attend  school.  Whenever  the  working  time  and  the 
class  time  coincide,  such  reduction  in  hours  of  work  shall  be  allowed 
at  the  time  when  the  classes  which  the  minor  is  by  law  required  to 
attend  are  held. 

(Section  1728o — 2)  2.  From  and  after  September  first,  1918, 
whenever  an  industrial,  continuation  or  commercial  school  shall 
be  established  according  to  the  provisions  of  sections  553p — 1  to 
553p — 9,  inclusive,  of  the  statutes,  in  any  town,  village  or  city,  any 
minor  not  indentured  as  an  apprentice  as  provided  in  section  2377 
of  the  statutes,  or  not  regularly  attending  any  other  recognized 
school,  between  the  ages  of  sixteen  and  seventeen,  residing  or  work- 
ing in  such  town,  village  or  city,  shall  attend  such  school  in  the 
daytime  not  less  than  8  hours  per  week  for  at  least  eight  months, 
and  for  such  additional  months  or  parts  thereof  as  the  other  public 
schools  of  such  city,  town  or  village  are  in  session  in  excess  of  eight 
during  the  regular  school  year,  or  the  equivalent,  as  may  be  de- 
termined by  the  local  board  of  industrial  education.  Every  em- 
ployer shall  allow  all  such  minor  employes  a  reduction  in  hours  of 
work  of  not  less  than  the  number  of  hours  the  minor  is  by  this  sec- 
tion required  to  attend  school.  The  total  hours  of  schooling  and 
employment  for  boys  over  sixteen  and  under  seventeen  years  of  age 
shall  not  exceed  fifty-five  hours  per  week.  Whenever  the  working 
time  and  the  class  time  coincide,  such  reduction  in  hours  shall  be 
allowed  at  the  time  when  the  classes  which  the  minor  is  by  law  re- 
quired to  attend  are  held. 

(Section  1728o — 2)  3.  Any  violation  of  this  section  in  a  case 
involving  a  minor  in  employment  shall  be  punished  as  is  provided 
in  the  case  of  violation  of  the  provisions  of  section  1728a  of  the 


SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  WISCONSIN,   1917  73 

statutes  and  any  violation  in  a  case  involving  a  minor  not  in  em- 
ployment shall  be  punished  as  is  provided  in  the  case  of  violating 
the  provisions  of  section  439a  of  the  statutes. 

The  enforcement  of  the  provisions  of  this  chapter  devolves  upon 
the  industrial  commission. 

Chapter  675.  (Section  55 3p — 3)  7.  This  board  shall  have 
power  to  purchase  all  machinery,  tools  and  supplies,  and  purchase 
or  lease  suitable  grounds  or  buildings  for  the  use  of  the  schools 
under  its  supervision;  to  rent  to  others  any  portion  of  such  build- 
ings and  grounds  not  presently  needed  for  school  purposes;  and  to 
erect,  improve  or  enlarge  buildings  for  the  use  of  said  schools.  Ex- 
isting school  buildings  and  equipment  shall  be  used  as  far  as  prac- 
ticable. All  conveyances,  leases  and  contracts  shall  be  in  the  name 
of  the  city,  and  all  property,  real  or  personal,  acquired  by  said  city 
for  the  use  of  said  schools  under  the  supervision  of  the  board  of 
industrial  education  shall  belong  to  the  city.  ' 

(Section  553p — 3)  6.  The  teachers  in  the  schools  created  under 
sections  553p — 1  to  553p — 15,  inclusive,  shall  be  employed  and 
their  qualifications  determined  by  the  local  board  of  industrial  edu- 
cation, subject  to  the  approval  of  the  state  board  of  industrial  edu- 
cation; and,  subject  to  such  approval,  the  said  local  board  may  em- 
ploy such  other  technical  advisors  and  experts  or  highly  trained, 
experienced  and  skilled  individuals  as  may  be  necessary  for  the 
proper  execution  of  the  duties  devolving  upon  it  by  law  and  fix  their 
compensation.  For  office  work  in  connection  with  the  administra- 
tion of  the  schools  under  its  control  the  said  local  board,  whenever 
it  deems  advisable,  may  employ  and  fix  the  compensation  of  any 
students  of  any  school  under  its  supervision  for  such  length  of  time 
as  it  may  deem  for  the  best  interest  of  such  students  and  of  any 
such  school. 

(Section  553p — 3)  10.  Said  local  board  of  industrial  education 
shall  have  exclusive  charge  and  control  over  the  schools  established 
by  it  and  over  all  property,  real  and  personal,  acquired  by  the  city 
for  the  use  of  the  schools  under  the  supervision  of  said  board,  ex- 
cept as  otherwise  provided  by  the  statutes  governing  said  schools. 
Said  board  may  sue  in  the  name  of  such  city,  and  may  carry  out  and 
enforce  all  powers  granted  by  law  to  said  board  and  may  defend 
all  suits  brought  against  said  city  in  all  matters  relating  to  said 
board.  All  work  done  or  supplies  or  material  purchased  in  carry- 
ing out  the  purposes  of  the  statutes  relating  to  the  board  of  indus- 
trial education  when  involving  the  expenditure  of  five  hundred  dol- 
lars, or  more,  shall  be  by  contract  awarded  to  the  lowest  competent 
and  reliable  bidder,  in  accordance  with  the  laws  of  this  state  and 
ordinances  then  applicable  to  any  city  having  a  board  of  industrial 
education  having  reference  to  the  letting  of  public  work  by  and 
through  the  board  or  commissioner  of  public  works,  or  other  officer 
or  officers,  or  department  of  such  city,  except  that  said  board  of  in- 


74  SCHOOL  LAWS  OP  WISCONSIN,    1917 

dustrial  education  shall  discharge  the  duties  imposed  by  such  laws 
upon  the  board  or  commissioner  of  public  works,  or  other  officer 
or  officers,  or  department  of  such  city;  but  said  board  of  industrial 
education  shall  have  power  to  purchase  without  public  advertise- 
ment or  first  receiving  competitive  bids,  or  the  intervention  of  a 
formal  contract,  any  patented  article,  appliance,  apparatus,  material 
or  process,  or  any  article,  appliance,  apparatus,  material  or  process 
made  or  manufactured  by  one  party  only.  Whenever  any  bidder 
for  any  work  to  be  let  by  the  board  of  industrial  education  shall  be, 
in  the  judgment  of  said  board,  incompetent  or  otherwise  unreliable 
for  the  performance  of  the  work  for  which  he  bids,  the  said  board 
may  accept  the  bid  of  the  person  who,  in  its  judgment,  is  the  lowest 
competent  and  reliable  bidder  for  said  work,  stating  its  reasons 
therefor,  or  relet  the  same  anew.  The  board  of  industrial  educa- 
tion may  permit  a  sum  of  money  or  a  certified  check  payable  to 
the  order  of  the  board  to  be  filed  with  any  bid  or  proposal  in  such 
an  amount  as  in  the  judgment  of  the  said  board  will  save  the  city 
from  any  loss  if  the  bidder  shall  fail  to  execute  a  contract  pursuant 
to  law,  in  case  his  bid  is  accepted  and  the  contract  awarded  to  him. 
Every  contract  made  by  the  board  of  industrial  education  shall  con- 
tain an  agreement  on  the  part  of  the  contractor  and  his  sureties 
that  in  case  such  contractor  shall  fail  to  fully  and  completely  per- 
form his  contract  within  the  time  therein  limited  for  the  perform- 
ance thereof,  such  contractor  shall  pay  to  the  city  as  liquidated 
damages  for  such  default,  a  certain  fixed  .sum  to  be  named  in  the 
contract,  which  shall  be  such  a  sum  as  in  the  judgment  of  said 
board  will  save  the  city  from  any  loss  on  account  of  such  default 
and  insure  the  prompt  completion  of  the  contract,  or  in  lieu  of  such 
an  agreement  contain  an  agreement  on  the  part  of  the  contractor 
and  his  sureties  that  in  case  .such  contractor  shall  fail  to  fully  and 
completely  perform  his  part  of  the  contract  within  the  time  therein 
limited  for  the  performance  thereof,  such  contractor  shall  pay  to 
the  city  as  liquidated  damages  for  such  default  a  definite  sum,  to 
be  named  in  the  contract,  for  each  day's  delay  in  completing  said 
contract  after  the  time  therein  limited  for  its  completion,  which 
daily  sum  shall  be  such  an  amount  as  in  the  judgment  of  said  board 
will  save  the  city  from  loss  in  case  of  such  default  and  insure  the 
prompt  completion  of  the  contract.  Every  contract  shall  also  be 
executed  by  at  least  two  sufficient  sureties,  or  a  surety  company,  to 
be  approved  by  the  board  of  industrial  education,  who  shall  guar- 
antee the  full  performance  of  the  contract  by  the  contractor  to  the 
satisfaction  of  the  said  board,  according  to  the  plans  and  specifica- 
tions of  the  said  board,  and  be  liable  for  such  performance  of  the 
contract,  as  sureties,  in  an  amount  equal  to  the  said  board's  esti- 
mate of  the  aggregate  cost  of  the  work.  When  a  contractor  shall 
proceed  properly  and  with  due  diligence  to  perform  and  complete  a 
contract,  the  said  board  may,  in  its  discretion,  from  time  to  time  as 
the  work  progresses,  grant  to  said  contractor  an  estimate  of  the 
amount  already  earned  for  the  work  done,  withholding  in  all  cases 


SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  WISCONSIN,   1917  75 

fifteen  per  cent  of  said  estimate  when  said  estimate  is  less  than  one 
hundred  thousand  dollars,  and  ten  per  cent  of  said  estimate  when 
said  estimate  is  one  hundred  thousand  dollars  or  over,  which  shall 
entitle  the  contractor  to  receive  said  estimate  less  the  amount  with- 
held. Said  board  shall  be  empowered,  if  it  see  fit,  to  insert  in  the 
specifications  of  any  such  work  reasonable  and  lawful  conditions  as 
to  hours  of  labor,  wages,  and  the  residence  and  character  of  work- 
men to  be  employed  by  the  contractor,  and  especially  so  far  as  may 
be  practicable  in  the  judgment  of  said  board,  such  reasonable  and 
lawful  conditions  as  will  tend  to  confine  employment  on  such  work, 
in  whole  or  in  part,  to  permanent  and  bona  fide  residents  of  the 
state  of  Wisconsin;  and  provided,  however,  also  that  said  board 
may  do  any  part  or  parts  of  any  such  work  under  such  conditions 
in  every  respect  as  it  may  prescribe  by  day  labor.  Any  and  aU 
bids  or  parts  of  bids  for  any  such  work  or  supplies  or  materials  may 
be  rejected  by  said  board.  The  said  board  shall  have  the  power  to 
demand  of  such  bidders  and  contractors  that  all  contracts  shall  be 
let  subject  to  the  provisions  of  chapter  llOa  of  the  Wisconsin  stat- 
utes for  1915  and  acts  amendatory  thereof,  entitled  "Workmen's 
"Compensation  and  Industrial  Commission,"  to  the  end  that  said 
board  and  such  city  may  be  held  harmless. 

Chapter  677.  Section  41.18.  Requirements  for  Admission  of 
Pupils.  The  schools  established  under  sections  41.13  to  41.21,  shall 
be  open  to  all  residents  of  the  cities,  towns  and  villages  in  which 
such  schools  are  located,  of  fourteen  years  of  age  or  over  who  are 
not  by  law  required  to  attend  other  schools,  and  to  all  persons  over 
fourteen  years  of  age  employed  in  said  cities,  towns  or  villages  but 
who  are  residents  of  other  municipalities  maintaining  vocational 
schools;  provided  that  no  such  person  who  is  a  resident  of  any  mu- 
nicipality maintaining  vocational  schools,  shall  be  received  in  or 
admitted  to  classes  in  any  such  school  in  any  other  municipality 
except  upon  presentation  to  the  authorities  of  such  school  of  the 
written  approval  of  the  local  board  of  industrial  education  having 
charge  of  such  school  in  the  municipality  wherein  such  person  re- 
sides. Any  city,  town  or  village  maintaining  vocational  schools  as 
provided  in  sections  41.13  to  41.21,  that  shall,  as  herein  provided, 
admit  to  the  privileges  of  such  schools  persons  employed  in  such 
municipalities,  but  who  are  residents  of  other  municipalities  main- 
taining vocational  schools,  is  empowered  to  collect  tuition  for  the 
schooling  of  such  nonresident  persons,  from  the  municipality  in 
which  the  parents  or  guardians  of  such  persons  reside,  in  the  same 
manner  and  at  the  same  rate  of  tuition  as  is  provided  for  the  col- 
lection of  tuition  for  nonresident  pupils  in  section  41.19.  Any  per- 
son over  the  age  of  fourteen  who  shall  reside  in  any  town,  village 
or  city  not  having  a  vocational  school  as  provided  in  said  sections, 
and  who  is  otherwise  qualified  to  pursue  the  course  of  study  may, 
with  the  approval  of  the  local  board  of  industrial  education  in  any 


76  SCHOOL  LAWS   OP  WISCONSIN,    1917 

town,  village  or  city  having  a  school  established  under  said  sec- 
tions, be  allowed  to  attend  any  school  under  their  supervision.  Such 
persons  shall  be  subject  to  the  same  rules  and  regulations  as  pupils 
of  the  school  who  are  residents  of  the  town,  village  or  city  in  which 
the  school  is  located. 

The  above  is  a  part  only  of  chapter  677  but  inasmuch  as  it  relates 
directly  to  matters  determined  by  chapter  675  and  is  virtually  a 
continuation  of  that  chapter,  it  is  inserted  here. 

Chapter  679.  Section  1.  It  is  hereby  declared  to  be  the  legisla- 
tive intent  that  the  amendment  of  section  20.21  of  the  statutes  by 
chapter  612  laws  of  1917  shall  not  repeal  subsection  (2)  of  said 
section  20.21  created  by  chapter  451  laws  of  1917.  The  latter  hav- 
ing been  omitted  from  the  amendment  of  section  20.21  by  said  chap- 
ter 612  by  clerical  oversight. 

This  is  a  correcting  statute. 

Chapter  63.  Section  553a — 2.  1.  The  teacher,  principal,  superin- 
tendent or  other  person  having  direct  charge  of  and  supervision  over 
any  public,  private  or  parochial  school,  high  school,  college  or  normal 
school  in  this  state  shall,  at  least  once  each  month  without  previous 
warning,  cause  all  persons  in  attendance  at  any  such  institution  to 
be  drilled  in  proper  methods  of  orderly  and  rapid  departure  from  each 
building  exceeding  one  story  in  height  belonging  to  such  institution 
as  if  in  case  of  fire. 

2.  Any  person  who  shall  fail  to  comply  with  the  provisions  of  this 
section  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor  and  upon  conviction 
thereof  shall  be  punished  by  a  fine  of  not  more  than  twenty-five  dol- 
lars. 

Chapter  53.  Section  1408a.  1.  Upon  the  appearance  of  any  dan- 
gerous communicable  disease  in  any  school  district,  it  shall  be  the 
duty  of  the  health  officer  of  the  township,  incorporated  village,  or  city 
where  the  schoolhouse  is  located  to  notify  at  once,  in  writing,  the 
principal  or  teacher  of  such  school  and  the  librarian  of  all  libraries 
in  any  such  town,  village,  or  city,  giving  the  names  of  all  families 
where  the  disease  exists.  If  the  rules  of  the  state  board  of  health  pro- 
vide for  the  exclusion  from  school  of  teachers,  or  pupils  from  homes 
where  such  disease  exists,  the  health  officer  shall  request  the  principal 
of  the  school  to  exclude  from  school  attendance  all  such  persons  until 
a  written  order  signed  by  the  health  officer  permitting  attendance  at 
school  is  presented. 

2.  Whenever  the  principal  or  teacher  of  the  school  has  been  notified 
of  the  prevalence  of  a  dangerous  communicable  disease  in  the  school 
district,  or  whenever  the  principal  or  teacher  of  the  school  knows  or 
suspects  that  a  dangerous  communicable  disease  is  present  in  the  school 
district,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  such  principal  to  at  once  notify  the 
health  officer  of  the  town,  village  or  city  where  the  schoolhouse  is 


SCHOOL   LAWS    OF   WISCONSIN,    1917  77 

located,  of  such  absence  from  school  on  account  of  sickness.  The 
health  officer  must  then  investigate  all  such  cases,  to  determine  whether 
or  not  a  dangerous  communicable  disease  is  present  in  such  family. 

3.  Library  books  shall  not  be  taken  into  a  home  where  a  dangerous 
communicable  disease  exists,  and  shall  not  be  returned  to  the  library 
from  a  home  where  such  disease  exists  or  has  recently  occurred  unless 
disinfected  as  hereinafter  provided.  Infected  books  or  books  suspected 
of  being  infected  shall  be  burned,  unless  thoroughly  disinfected  by  or 
under  the  direction  of  the  local  health  officer. 

Section  1408b.  Parents,  guardians,  or  persons  having  custody  of  any 
child  or  children,  shall  not  permit  such  child  or  children,  if  afflicted 
with  a  dangerous  communicable  disease,  to  attend  school.  *  *  * 


INDEX 


Chapter  Pagre 

Additional  room  and  teacher — Sixty  pupil  law 157  13 

Apportionment, — school   census    284  22 

Apportionments  for  transportation   441  32 

Attendance — compulsory    285  23 

Board  meetings — district  Joint  with  city  or  village 165  14 

Billiards — pool — minors — 18  yrs 118  9 

Bond — issues  by  cities   154  13 

Certificates — teachers — for   1919   and   1921    -269  21 

Cities — first  class — school  boards 614  68 

Cities — special  taxes 542  51 

Cities — first  class — superintendent  of  schools 490  38 

City  schools  and  school  boards — first  class 59  6 

Cleanliness  of  pupils — teachers'  duty 97  8 

Communicable  diseases — duty  of  teacher    53 

Compensation — director — treasurer — census    143  10 

Compulsory  attendance   285  23 

Compulsory  'attendance — continuation  schools 674  69 

Compulsory  attendance — truant  officers 260  21 

Consolidated  schools — state  aid    510  45 

Contracts  for  work — (important  statute)    388  28 

Correcting  statute — institute  fund  (Chap.  451) 679  76 

County  agricultural  representatives 224  17 

County  training  schools 405  30 

County  training  schools — buildings  for — special  aid   ....        232  18 

Crippled  children — state  public  school 98  8 

Crippled  children — transportation  and  lunches — Milwau- 
kee schools    236  20 

Day  schools  for  deaf 343  25 

Director — treasurer — compensation — census    143  10 

Diseases — reports  of 53 

District    meetings — annual — special     135  10 

Districts — formation — alteration   of  boundaries,   etc,   etc.        497  41 

Exceptional  children — special  classes 580  67 

Fire  drills — school   (important)    63 

High  schools — district  and  union 563  52-67 

Alteration  of  district  boundaries 59 

Annual  meeting 

Annual  meeting — notice 58 

Board  to  publish  financial  report 65 

Courses  of  study 63 

Dissolution  of  district 64 

District  comprising  one  or  two  towns 

Election — how  conducted 58 

How  established 52 

Including  city — special  case 

Including  incorporated  village    ... 

Officers     

Powers  of  electors  .  .  -. 62 


INDEX  79 

Chapter  Page 
High  schools — continued. 

Qualification — teachers 61 

Special  meeting    59 

State  aids 66 

Statement  of  tuition 64 

Taxes — how  collected 60 

Three   year   contract — principal    ...  63 

Town    free    high    schools    became    union    free    high 

schools    66 

Union  free  high  schools 55 

Vote  taken  by  ballot 56 

Income  tax — expenditure  for  schools 234  19 

Industrial  and  Continuation  schools — tax  rate 436  31 

Industrial  schools — admission  of  pupils 677  75 

Industrial  schools — power  of  boards 675  73 

Loans  from  trust  funds — how  made — districts — towns — 

etc 536  47 

Lunches     and     transportation — crippled     children — Mil- 
waukee            236  20 

Lunches  for  pupils — any  school 427  31 

Nonresident  tuition — university 359  27 

Proposals  for  supplies  in  cities 59  6 

Records  delivered  to  successor — penalty 178  15 

Revision  of  high  school  laws — (see  high  schools)    563  52 

Rural  schools — state  aid — first  class 317  24 

Rural  schools — state  aid — transportation     652  52 

Rural  schools — state  aid  to  teachers 344  26 

Sanitation  for  schools — teachers  duty  . 97  8 

Site — equipment — loans  from  bank  or  individual Ill  9 

Special  district  meetings — (important)    438  31 

State  aid  for  teachers'  institute   451  38 

State  aid — minimum  salary  for  teachers 284  22 

State  graded  schools — no  aid  in  certain  cases 187  16 

State  Mining  School — Platteville — course  of  study 544  51 

Stout  Institute — graduates — teachers    528  46 

Stout  Institute — training  teachers — economics — technical 

training 416  31 

Superintendents  in  cities — first  class 490  38 

Tax  levy — first-class  cities 614  68 

Taxes — special — cities — third  and  fourth  class 542  51 

Teachers — examination — state   certificates — fees 403  29 

Teachers — exchange — with  other  states 340  25 

Teachers — state  aid  to   528  46 

Textbooks — five  year  adoption   499  44 

Township  system — taxes  to  pay — unpaid  obligations  ....        189  17 

Training  school  for  public  service — University   412  30 

Transportation — special  aid  for  first-class  rural  schools.  .         652  69 

Transportation  of  pupils 441  33-37 

Board  may  pay  lodging,  etc 34 

Board  to  levy  tax   ...  33 

Consolidated  districts 

Contract  to  be  in  writing 

Rate  per  mile — state  aid 35 

Report  to  state  superintendent 

State  graded  school — special  aids    ... 

Suspension  of  school — state  aid    •  •  •  36-37 

Suspension  of  school — tuition    33 

Truant  officers — duties    260  21 

Trust  fund  indebtedness — how  collected — joint  district — 

duty  of  district  clerk — (Important)    546  51 


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Chapter  Page 

Tuition — nonresident —  state   graded   schools — first  class  71  6 

Validating  and  confirming  creation  of  districts 442  38 

Validating  and  confirming  change  of  district  goverrr       t  172  14 
Vocational      schools    (See      Industrial   and    Continuation 

schools)     

Wild  animals — economic  value  of — duties  of  teachers  ...  102  8 


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